Table of Contents
Cloud
Business Models
IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) :
PAAS (Platform As A Service) :
SAAS (Software As A Service) :
CAAS (Container As A Service) :
Cloud
Business Models
IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) :
The base layer
Deals with Virtual Machines, Storage (Hard Disks), Servers, Network, Load Balancers etc
e.g. Amazon AWS Cloud
PAAS (Platform As A Service) :
A layer on top of IAAS
Runtimes (like java runtimes), Databases (like mySql, Oracle), Web Servers (tomcat etc)
E.g. Azure, Google App Engine
SAAS (Software As A Service) :
A layer on top on PAAS
Applications like email (Gmail, Yahoo mail etc), Social Networking sites (Facebook etc)
e.g. Photoshop Online, Office 365
CAAS (Container As A Service) :
Provides (Docker) Container Hosting, Monitoring
e.g. DockerDataCenter, Amazon EC2 Container Service