PaaS is "Platform as a Service" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service Think Heroku, Google A

PaaS is "Platform as a Service" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service Think Heroku, Google App Engine, AWS Beanstalk, etc. Cloud providers that give you something like a managed runtime. As distinct from Infrastructure as a Service which provides lower level infrastructure. Examples are AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine, etc.