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An organization plans to migrate an internal line-of-business web application to Microsoft Azure. The development team wants to focus solely on deploying custom code, configuring application settings, and managing data access.
The organization requires a hosting model where the cloud provider manages the underlying physical infrastructure, operating system maintenance, runtime updates, and hardware patching.
Which cloud service model best aligns with the organization's desired level of management responsibility?
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model where the cloud service provider delivers a fully managed environment for building, running, and managing applications. In PaaS, the provider abstracts the complexity of managing physical servers, storage, networking, operating system installations, and runtime environments.
Under the shared responsibility model, PaaS strikes a balance between customer control and provider management:
Choosing PaaS directly fulfills the organization's requirement to shift infrastructure and operating system maintenance to Microsoft while preserving control over application deployment and data governance.
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