Comparison of Daas, Iaas, Paas, Saas, Faas, Baas, Caas

Brief

Recap regarding *aas

• Daas

The abbreviation of Desktop as a service or Data as a service.

• Desktop as a service

The service provides PC's desktop functionalities through internet.

• Data as a service

It provides data management system via internet.

• Iaas

The abbreviation of Infrastructure as a service.

The service provides physical infra like server body, unit, room or etc. Users have to configure layer above OS.

e.g.

AWS EC2

GCP CE

MS Azure

• Paas

The abbreviation of Pratform as a service.

The service provides what is same as Iaas, and also provides OS. Users have to configure layer above FW.  *FW in paas is often limited by vendors.

e.g.

Google App Engine

Herok

Cloud Foundry

• Saas

The abbreviation of Software as a service. Basically accessed by users a thin client via a web browser.

e.g.

Gmail

SAP

Saleceforce

• Faas

The abbreviation of Function as a service.

The service provides small functionalities via webAPI. Mainly for application developers.

e.g.

AWS Lamda

Google Cloud Function

• Baas/MBaas

The abbreviation of Backend as a service/Mobile backend as a service. It provides

functionalities for mobile application development.

e.g.
Fii
Firebase

• Caas

The abbreviation of container as a service

e.g.

GKE

ECS

PKS