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Different Service Models in Cloud
Let's understand what is a service model and what all different types of service models are available in the cloud?
Service Models in AWS Cloud: There are mainly 3 types of service models available:
1. SaaS — Software As a Service
2. PasS — Platform As a Service
3. IaaS — Infrastructure As a Service
There are various definitions available all over the internet. I went through a lot of material and made some notes. Let me share my learnings in simple terms:
SaaS — Software As a Service — where you are consuming the services given by the service provider. Easy Example: Gmail is given by Google where you are only consuming the Gmail functionality.
PaaS- Platform As a Service — where you are given a platform to build your application. You do not need to worry about the infrastructure for hosting the application. Basically, you don’t need to worry about the hardware/OS requirements. You just need to upload your website. Example: AWS Elastic Beanstalk is one such service.
IaaS — Infrastructure As a Service — where the whole infrastructure is provided to you by the service provider.
Amazon EC2 service where you can create EC2 instances to cater to your project requirements. It’s a virtual…
