A municipal developer team wants a managed web-hosting platform for a citizen portal without managing virtual machines. Which cloud service type best fits?
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Short Explanation
PaaS is like a managed kitchen: the city brings the recipes (code), and the provider keeps the ovens, power, and utensils running. You skip babysitting VMs and focus on the citizen portal app itself.
Full Explanation
Platform as a service supplies a managed application hosting environment—OS, runtime, and often scaling—while customers deploy and own their application code and configuration. That matches a managed web-hosting platform without VM administration. IaaS would require managing guest OS images, and SaaS is for finished end-user applications rather than custom portal code deployment.