Defining Cloud Computing – Part 4: PaaS
February 18th, 2009
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Platform as a Service (PaaS)
The next step up into the cloud from SaaS is the Platform as a Service. While SaaS offers applications for end users, PaaS offers a development platform for developers. Developers do not need to worry about the operating system, storage or hosting. Developers write the code and the PaaS provider provides a very simple method to upload that code and present it on the internet.
The PaaS provider gives provides the hardware, operating system, software upgrades, security and everything else related to the day to day hosting of an application. Most PaaS providers are limited to specific languages and IDEs.
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