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