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What are the differences between IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS, the three main Cloud Computing models?

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS are three Cloud computing models popular in the market. Depending upon the requirement a company can opt for any of the three models. Here we explain IaaS, PaaS, SaaS model in the best possible way so that anyone can understand and differential among them.

What is IaaS?

IaaS (or Infrastructure as a Service) provides the infrastructure such as virtual machines and other resources like virtual-machine disk image library, block and file-based storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area networks etc. Infrastructure as service or IaaS is the basic layer in cloud computing model. We run only major providers like Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

What is PaaS or CPaaS?

PaaS (or Platform as a Service) provides you computing platforms which typically includes operating system, programming language execution environment, database, web server. technically It is a layer on top of IaaS as the second thing you demand after Infrastructure is platform. At Interactive Powers, we understand PaaS as CPaaS or Communications Platform as a Service. Learn More…

What is SaaS?

SaaS (or Software as a service) provides an access to an application and data installed in a server or multiples servers. You don’t have to worry about installation, maintenance or coding of that software. You can access and operate the software with just your browser or any other device. The software maintenance is included and you will only have to pay for your usage. Learn more…

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