PaaS providers and features
As with IaaS, AWS and Azure are rife with PaaS offerings.
The most obvious offerings are databases, with AWS offering PaaS relational databases, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB), and caching systems like Amazon ElastiCache.
Azure offerings for databases include MSSQL deployments (obviously) and recently, the inclusion of PostgreSQL too.
Amazon offer domain name services in the form of Route 53 (ha-ha guys, very clever, now quit it with the stupid naming). They also offer CDN solutions, VPN setups, and Active Directory services.
Azure offer a CDN solution too, alongside Web Apps (used to host web applications and sites), Azure Blob Storage, and non-relational database offerings, such as Cosmos DB. There's even a specifically ...
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