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Pizza-As-A-Service helps explain today’s cloud

I saw this image posted on Twitter and realized there’s some decent education value to it in addition to its humor.

Using pizza, which we’re all familiar with, it can explain the difference between different “cloud” implementations. It uses examples from traditional on-premise “private cloud” to infrastructure-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service to software-as-a-service. Blue is color-coded to what you manage while green is what the vendor provides.

Credit: Albert Barron on LinkedIn, via @MarkRussinovich