PaaS

How it is used

Pronounced like the word 'pass'. Heroku, Google App Engine, Azure App Service and AWS Elastic Beanstalk are common examples. PaaS saves operations work but gives you less control than IaaS.

Example sentences

1. As a two-person team, we picked a PaaS so we wouldn't have to manage servers at all.

2. The PaaS handles scaling, but it doesn't let us install custom system packages.

Common collocations

• PaaS provider
• PaaS platform
• deploy to a PaaS
• PaaS offering

Related terms

• IaaSShort for infrastructure as a service: renting basic building blocks such as virtual machines, disks and networks, while you manage the operating system and everything above it.
• SaaSShort for software as a service: complete software that customers use through a browser or app and pay for by subscription, while the vendor runs everything behind it.
• managed serviceA cloud service where the provider handles setup, patching, backups and scaling, so you only use it and do not manage the servers underneath.
• serverlessDescribes a way of running code in which the provider starts and scales servers automatically for each request, and you pay only for the time your code actually runs.
• cloud computingRenting servers, storage, databases and other computing resources over the internet from a provider, instead of buying and running your own hardware.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• PaaS · Software Engineering

More terms: Cloud Basics and Service Models

• cloud provider
• region
• on-premises
• hybrid cloud
• availability zone
• workload