Cloud computing services
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud computing service model that provides customers with a complete platform to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure. It typically includes operating systems, programming…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2007
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- PaaS was created to solve the significant burden placed on developers and IT operations teams who had to spend excessive time provisioning, configuring, and managing the underlying servers, operating systems, networking, and middleware required to run applications. This 'undifferentiated heavy lifting' diverted resources from core application development, slowed deployment cycles, and made scaling challenging.
- Platforms
- Heroku, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DigitalOcean App Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Thousands of startups and enterprises leveraging cloud provider PaaS offerings
- Salesforce
- Nike
- Toyota
- Comcast
- Uber (early on)