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A Platform as a Service, or PaaS, is an external platform for application development teams to deploy and run their apps. Heroku, Cloud Foundry, App Engine are examples of PaaS offerings.
To take advantage of cloud native patterns like microservices or distributed applications, operations teams and developers need to be able to offload a significant amount of operations and maintenance work. These include tasks like provisioning infrastructure, handling service discovery and load balancing, and scaling applications.
A PaaS provides common infrastructure tools to application developers in a fully automated fashion. It allows developers to understand and worry less about infrastructure and devote more time and effort to writing application code. It also provides some monitoring and observability to help application teams ensure their apps are healthy.