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Cloud service models – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

There are three cloud-based service models, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. The main features of each of these are listed here:

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides users the capability to provision processing, storage, and network resources on demand. The customers deploy and run their own applications on these resources. Using this service model is closest to the traditional in-premise models and the virtual server provisioning models (typically offered by data center outsourcers). The onus of administering these resources rests largely with the customer.
• In Platform as a Service(PaaS), the service provider makes certain core components, such as databases, queues, workflow engines, e-mails, and so on, which ...