Cloud Terms

Cloud Terms

Firstly some terminology courtesy of Stackoverflow

IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) :

• The base layer
• Deals with Virtual Machines, Storage (Hard Disks), Servers, Network, Load Balancers etc

PAAS (Platform As A Service) :

• A layer on top of IAAS
• Runtimes (like .net/java runtimes), Databases (like MSSql, Oracle), Web Servers (IIS/tomcat etc)

SAAS (Software As A Service) :

• A layer on top on PAAS
• Applications like email (Gmail, Yahoo mail etc), Social Networking sites (Facebook etc)

IAAS

• AWS
• Azure
• Digital Ocean
• Google Cloud

PAAS

• Azure
• DotCloud
• SalesForce
• OpenShift
• m-brace
• AppHarbour
• Heroku

SAAS

• Azure
• AppHarbour
• Heroku
• SalesForce

Published: 29/06/2015

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