PaaS

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Platform as a Service is a category of infrastructure products that makes life easier for developers: instead of managing infrastructure on their own, the vendor takes care of things like installing the right software, managing upgrades, and connecting databases. For a fee, of course.

The OG PaaS was Heroku, who won the hearts and minds of developers before they got acquired (perhaps sadly) by Salesforce in 2010 and all but destroyed.

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IaaS

IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service, and it’s the lowest level of service available in the modern cloud ecosystem. The provider, be it AWS or Google or Azure, rents out space on a server to you, and the rest is up to you to run and manage. Contrast this with Platform as a service, another level up, where they charge you extra to manage the infrastructure for you. These days, all of the major cloud providers offer products across the gamut: IaaS, PaaS, and even SaaS (fully managed).

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PaaS

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What your developers are using: the application stack

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