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The main three cloud service models are: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Each cloud service model covers different
user and company needs, and provides a different level of control, security and scalability.
IaaS is a cloud service model that consists of provisioning and managing computing resources over the
Internet; such as servers, storage, networking and virtualization.
Examples:
Stackscale
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud
VMware
Microsoft Azure
OVH
OpenStack
PaaS is a cloud service model that provides a ready-to-use development environment where developers
can focus on writing and executing high-quality code in order to create customized applications.
Examples:
Heroku
OpenShift
Apache Stratos
Flynn
Cloud Foundry
SaaS is a cloud service model that consists of delivering cloud-based applications to users over the
Internet. Software is hosted online and made available to customers on a subscription basis or for
purchase.
Examples:
Acumbamail
Salesforce
Gmail
Google Drive
Dropbox
Slack
Trello
GoToMeeting