Cloud Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide

* Infrastructure as a Service IaaS) * Build your Cloud Computing stack on basic infrastructure building blocks such as Virtual Servers, Storage, Networking and Security. * Platform as a Service PaaS) * The building blocks of this architecture provide a fully managed platform as a resource for your application stack. Examples: Atlas App Services Cloud. * Software as a service SaaS) * Build your Cloud Computing Stack using software provided as a service such as MongoDB Atlas and Atlas App Services Features Sync, Authentication etc). * Front-end as as service FaaS) * Services that allow you to host and provide front-end hosting and runtime to your application. Examples: App Services Hosting , Netlify etc. * Development as a service DaaS) * Development as a service allows your architecture to be fully developed/tested and deployed in the cloud. With the help of tools like GitHub and Atlas App Services auto deployment, you can build your CI/CD directly in the cloud. Additionally MongoDB Atlas and Realm have built-in IDEs, revision mechanism and Data explorers to code directly on your cloud deployment.

PaaS Platform as a Service) allows you to build, deploy and maintain your applications using a complete platform: hardware, software and infrastructure. SaaS Software as a Service) on the other hand, provides you with software offerings hosted and installed for you including licensing and maintenance, upgrades etc.