Also known as: Platform As A Service (PaaS) Β· PaaS Β· Platform As A Service PaaS
Platform as a Service provides a cloud environment for deploying applications using provider-supported languages, libraries, services, and tools. The user controls the deployed application and some configuration while the provider manages the underlying infrastructure.
βThe capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly configuration settings for the application-hosting environment.β NIST definition.