Skill 1.3: Describe cloud service types

As you’ve learned, one of the benefits of moving to the cloud is that you offload some of the responsibility of your infrastructure to the cloud provider. Moving to the cloud, however, is not an all-or-nothing kind of thing. When you’re evaluating your use of the cloud, you need to balance your need for controlling resources against the convenience of allowing the cloud provider to handle things for you.

In this skill section, we will discuss the three primary categories of cloud services: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). We’ll cover how your choice of service type aligns with the shared responsibility model we discussed earlier in the ...

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