July 2017
Beginner
466 pages
9h 37m
English
PaaS comes just one step above the IaaS block, which provides a platform where you can develop software and deploy them. It makes the development, testing, and deployment simpler, faster, and cost effective by providing the programming language to interact with services, databases, servers, and/or storage without having to deal with the infrastructure where it is being used.
As PaaS is built on top of virtualization technology, the vendor of such services provides the physical/virtual environment with frameworks and runtimes to manage your applications and data. Google App Engine, Red Hat's OpenShift, and Heroku are some well-known examples of Platform as a Service.
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