Cloud ecosystem

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Overview

Cloud Providers

Big Players

However, there are many more players in the market:

PaaS

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Providers

PaaS offers cloud computing customers a scalable platform for their Web development endeavors. The term "platform" refers to a runtime environment that operates on a higher level of abstraction than IaaS services. Compare to Marc Andreessen: Web as Platform.

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Providers and Enablers

It makes sense to distinguish between IaaS providers that serve compute storage, processing power and bandwidth and Iaas enablers, like 3tera, that primarily provide for technology solutions but not for "bare metal".

Technology, Cloud Brokers and Value-add Services

Different from PaaS providers, brokers use third party IaaS services in order to provide higher-level services (PaaS, tools and frameworks) to cloud computing customers.

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