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In PaaS, what does the consumer control?

The consumer controls deployed applications and some environment settings.

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  1. The provider's physical power system
  2. Deployed applications and some settings ✔
  3. Every underlying storage device

Why: Platform as a Service lets a consumer deploy applications using provider-supported languages, libraries, services, and tools. The provider manages the underlying servers, operating systems, storage, and network.

Huh, didn't know that: PaaS sits between IaaS control and SaaS convenience in the usual service-model comparison.

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PaaS set the stage so the application could perform.
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Answer: Deployed applications and some settings. Platform as a Service lets a consumer deploy applications using provider-supported languages, libraries, services, and tools. The provider manages the underlying servers, operating systems, storage, and network.

  1. NIST SP 800-145: The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdf
    but has control over the deployed applications and possibly configuration settings for the application-hosting environment.
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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