Platform-As-A-Service: PaaS Examples And Definitions

Definition: PaaS offers an even greater abstraction of cloud service, offering users the capability to build or deploy applications using tools (i.e. programming languages, libraries, services) without maintaining the underlying infrastructure. Users instead have control over the applications themselves. 

Examples: Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, Google App Engine (GAE), and OpenShift

Common Use Cases: PaaS is highly available and highly scalable, and it gives organizations the ability to build and create new services and solutions without the need for highly skilled developers focused on software maintenance. PaaS is preferred by IT in hybrid cloud environments.