Which cloud service model provides a fully managed environment-including servers, storage, networking, operating systems, and development tools-so that developers can build, test, and deploy applications without having to maintain the underlying infrastructure?
Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivers the complete runtime and development stack for applications. The provider maintains the underlying hardware, virtualization layer, operating systems, and middleware, letting customers focus solely on application code and data. In IaaS, customers still install and manage operating systems and middleware. SaaS delivers finished software to end-users over the internet. Desktop virtualization (VDI) streams an entire desktop OS to a client device but is not itself a cloud service-model category.
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