PaaS - Platform-as-a-Service
The cloud provider maintains:
- physical infrastructure
- physical security
- network
- operating system (security, licences, patches)
- development tools
- databases
List of Azure services
- [[microsoft-purview]]
- Event Hub
- [[azure-app-service]]
- [[azure-container-apps]]
- [[azure-kubernetes-service]]
- [[azure-entra]]
- [[azure-entra-domain-services]]
Backlinks
Azure Container Apps
It's a #paas service.
Azure Availability Zones
Some services are replicated across several zones (eg: [[Azure SQL]]); Microsoft manages spreading requests across zones and the replication of data across zones. If an outage occurs in a single availability zone, Microsoft manages failover automatically. **Typically supported by [[paas]]**.
Shared Responsibility Model
- [[paas]] is in the middle.
Azure DevTest Labs
Azure DevTest Labs is a tool to create and manage [[iaas]] (like [[azure-virtual-machines]]) and [[paas]] (like [[azure-app-service]]) instances for dev and test environments.
Azure Container Instances (ACI)
Azure Container Instances is a [[paas]] service.