Azure PaaS applications

Azure PaaS is in between SaaS and IaaS as far as the amount of control and autonomy of Azure customers (such as the business organization you work for) is concerned.

In PaaS, Azure provides a platform. Only Azure SaaS provides Azure’s own complete applications that customers deploy their data in, whereas Azure IaaS basically provides Azure’s server hardware and networking infrastructure with absolutely minimal Azure code. The vast majority of the code in an IaaS deployment belongs to the customer and is their responsibility.

Here are Azure PaaS services where customers run the applications they develop, but within platform systems that Microsoft develops.

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database enables customers to build applications with SQL databases. SQL is one of the top vendor-neutral database development technologies. A wide variety of types of applications that need support from backend services use SQL, not just mobile apps or...