Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

Deciding between IaaS or PaaS

Once a subscription is in place, you can start creating resources in order to use them and deploy your application. Choosing what to use and when can be overwhelming in terms of the broad choice Microsoft Azure has to offer. There are different approaches and different architectures we need to consider before even starting.

We have already talked about IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. An example of Microsoft SaaS is Office 365 and, as a cloud software, it is available under a subscription model. Office 365 even runs in Azure data centers (it was the initial purpose of these data centers along with identity management—we now call this Azure Active Directory), but we will not discuss this product further as it isn't directly ...