Deploying to the Cloud
Over the last couple of years, the cloud has grown considerably, and a lot of companies now offer these types of cloud solutions:
Platform as a service
Infrastructure as a service
Software as a service
A platform as a service is, as the name implies, a full platform to run your applications on. Often you can choose some of the services (database, messaging, logging, etc.) you want to use for your applications. These services are provided by companies such as Google (Google Cloud Platform), Pivotal (CloudFoundry), and Amazon (Amazon Web Services).
Infrastructure as a service provides infrastructure such as virtual machines and other resources to build your own platform for deployment. Some examples are VMware ESX and Oracle ...
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