Change is the only constant – preparing for change
When working with any of the big cloud providers, you should differentiate their offerings broadly into three types of service:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
IaaS services are all-infrastructure abstractions such as virtual machines (compute), disks (storage), and networking; PaaS services are platforms built on top of these components with additional functionality that exposes the underlying services. SaaS services, in contrast, are just exposed through a UI and don't give you any access to the underlying data.
Azure Machine Learning is a great example of a PaaS offering, as it combines different infrastructure services, UIs, and SDKs to give you great new features and full access to the underlying services, such as blob storage, training clusters, and container registries. You will also see on your monthly Azure bill that you will...
