PaaS - Platform as a Service

PaaS - Cloud Platform as a Service
Related terms: PaaS, Cloud Dev Platform, Ruby PaaS, Java PaaS, PHP PaaS

What is Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)? Platform as a Service is the capability provided to developers and development organizations, to deploy onto cloud infrastructure, applications using programming languages and tools supported by the provider (Java, Ruby, PHP, python, .Net). The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure, network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but the consumer has control over the deployed applications and application environment configurations.

PaaS offers an integrated development environment that enables developers and development teams to more easily:

• Design
• Collaborate
• Develop
• Test
• Deploy /Provision

Cloud Platform as a Service PaaS offerings facilitate deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software stack and provisioning, providing all of the facilities required to support the complete life cycle of building and delivering applications.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) companies offer up a wide variety of solutions for developing and deploying applications over the Internet, such as virtualized servers and operating systems. This saves you money on hardware and also makes collaboration easier for a scattered workforce. Web application management, application design, app hosting, storage, security, and app development collaboration tools all fall into this category.

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