About 20 software developers work at your company. Their job is to develop apps for many operating systems. You want to support the development team, and you decide to buy cloud-based services. What kind of service should you get so that developers can test their programs in environments different from those in which these programs were developed?

Platform as a service (PaaS) adds a layer that contains software development tools including runtime environments to IaaS. The vendor manages the numerous hardware platforms, which allows software developers to concentrate on developing and scaling their applications. The best PaaS solutions enable clients to export their developed applications and run them in environments different from those in which those applications were created.