managed by customer

Metal as a Service
(MaaS)

Private Cloud (PC)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Container as a Service
(CaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Function as a Service (FaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

managed by provider

function

application

runtime

container

operating system

virtualization

Hardware

Types

• VMware vSphere
• OpenStack Nova
• AWS EC2
• Google Cloud Compute Engine
• Azure VMs

• OpenFaaS
• OpenWhisk
• Riff
• Knative