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Table 1 A comparison of typical cloud delivery model control levels
Cloud Delivery Model | Typical Level of Control Granted to CSCs | Typical Functionality Made Available to CSCs |
|---|---|---|
SaaS | Usage and usage-related configuration | Access to front-end user-interface |
PaaS | Limited administrative | Moderate level of administrative control over IT resources relevant to cloud consumer’s usage of platform |
IaaS | Full administrative | Full access to virtualized infrastructure-related IT resources and, possibly, to underlying physical IT resources |