Concept Map for Cloud Service Models
May 17, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
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Description
Shows the concepts related to cloud service models and their relationships.
Concepts
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Cloud Service Model | The type of service provided by a cloud provider |
| Container as a Service (CaaS) | Allows users to manage and deploy containers, which are lightweight, standalone, executable packages that include everything needed to run an application, including the code, runtime, system tools, libraries, and settings. |
| Function as a Service (FaaS) | Allows users to run pieces of code in response to events or triggers in a serverless deployment. |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Provides virtualized network and computing resources over the internet |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Provides a platform of services allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity managing virtual machines |
| Software as a Service (SaaS) | A software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications in the cloud and makes them available to customers over the Internet |
Generalizations
| From | Name | To | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | is a | Cloud Service Model | IaaS is a cloud service model. |
| Function as a Service (FaaS) | is a | Cloud Service Model | FaaS is a cloud service model. |
| Software as a Service (SaaS) | is a | Cloud Service Model | SaaS is a cloud service model. |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | is a | Cloud Service Model | PaaS is a cloud service model. |
| Container as a Service (CaaS) | is a | Cloud Service Model | CaaS is a cloud service model. |
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