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Unlocking the Power of SaaS - Episode 1

Name: Unlocking the Power of SaaS - Episode 1
Uploaded: 2023-09-12T15:00:02+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short YouTube presentation (Mike Austin) that explains the difference between SaaS (software as a service) and cloud services (infrastructure/platform…

12 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube presentation (Mike Austin) that explains the difference between SaaS (software as a service) and cloud services (infrastructure/platform as a service). The speaker clarifies that cloud services refer to hosting resources at providers like Amazon, Google Cloud, or Azure, whereas SaaS refers to purchasing and using an application delivered in the cloud.

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But there's a lot of confusion sometimes about the difference between SaaS and cloud. And so if you look at infrastructure as a service, so SaaS obviously stands for software as a service. And there is some confusion because some people try and lump in cloud services, which is infrastructure or platform as a service. And the difference really is, if you think about. I'm going to really simplify this. If you think about SaaS, and if you think about cloud services, the difference is cloud services are things that you host at, say, Amazon or Google Cloud or Azure versus purchasing an application and using that application in the cloud.