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SaaS and PaaS in Cloud

Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to

  • Define the characteristics of SaaS and PaaS

  • Analyze the advantages/disadvantages of SaaS and PaaS

  • Compare and contrast implementation/ examples w.r.t SaaS and PaaS

This chapter helps to develop an understanding of the high-level differences between SaaS and PaaS. Before the customer has made the decision to consider Cloud services for their application or infrastructure deployment, it is important that they understand the fundamental differences between the core categories of Cloud services available.

6.1 SaaS in Cloud

The idea of using SaaS first popped up in the late 1990s in order to allow sharing end-user licenses in a way that reduced cost ...

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