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PaaS clouds
From the course: Cloud Computing: Understanding Core Concepts
PaaS clouds
- [Instructor] A platform as a service, PaaS model, means that a third party service provides application development, testing, and deployment, and hosting services as a service. This allows for efficient application development platforms that could be leveraged by enterprises to make application development more cost effective. PaaS provides complete development, testing and deployment platforms that most enterprises will find more turnkey than a traditional development workflow. PaaS also reduces the complexity of building, testing and deploying applications by keeping the developers inside a well-defined environment that limits the availability for the developer to make mistakes. PaaS supports most IaaS Cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft Azure. Or you can integrate these platforms directly in your PaaS-built applications. AWS's Elastic Beanstalk is an example of a PaaS cloud that runs with the IaaS cloud, AWS. The same IaaS and PaaS combination can…
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