YOU'RE IN CONTROL:
Matching IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS to Your Needs
As you map your path to the cloud, the most important decisions revolve around how much you can—and want—to manage yourself and how much you want your service provider to manage. Here’s how infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) compare in terms of who manages what.
Explore all the options below to discover which services match your needs
today and which you want to plan for in the future.
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
service type:
Choose Above
choose a service type:
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
SaaS
Software as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
PaaS
Platform as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
On-Premises