Which cloud computing acronym best describes a solution that replaces hardware, infrastructure and software used for creating, testing and deploying applications and services?
A Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud platform that provides end users with a development environment and tooling without them having to setup the networking, servers and install all the software components themselves. Out of the box a PaaS can include a lot of components including the OS, Middleware, Databases and Database Managements systems and much more.