From 49a69fb175b44369e9789e45ec5a0602e9cc5a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arsalaan Javed Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 10:21:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] PaaS added (#21111) --- guide/english/cloud-development/index.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/guide/english/cloud-development/index.md b/guide/english/cloud-development/index.md index 5f79466861..8887274ee1 100644 --- a/guide/english/cloud-development/index.md +++ b/guide/english/cloud-development/index.md @@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ Popular choices for Public Cloud providers are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Az Many modern websites and big data efforts are said to be developed in the Cloud, meaning they are operating in some of these massive shared datacenters. +## Cloud Layers + +### Software as a Service +SaaS is from a end user perspective, meaning that at this layer cloud providers will host and provide a software/application as a whole, running, to the end users. One good example could be Google Drive here. + +### Platform as a Service +PaaS is from the service provider perspective, meaning that at this layer the cloud providers will provide us the platform used for developing the applications offered as a SaaS. One good example could be Google App Engine. + + #### More Information: - [Getting Started with AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/)