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A software development team is building a new customer-facing web application and backend API. The team wants to focus exclusively on application logic and deployment without managing operating systems, runtime patching, or underlying server hardware. Additionally, they require built-in automatic scaling and integrated development deployment tools.
Which cloud service model best satisfies these requirements?
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model that provides a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud. Under PaaS, the cloud provider delivers the hardware, operating systems, storage, network infrastructure, and middleware required to run applications, allowing organizations to avoid the expense and complexity of managing software licenses, server infrastructure, and network equipment.
Compared to IaaS, which requires ongoing server administration, or SaaS, which provides fixed end-user applications rather than custom software hosting, PaaS offers the ideal balance of control and abstraction for custom web application and API development.
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