Historically, as shown in FIGURE 12-2, businesses moved to the cloud to leverage SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions. As the cloud capabilities have expanded, cloud providers now offer a broad range of “as-a-service” solutions:
Database as a service (DBaaS)
Identity as a service (IDaaS)
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
Security as a service (SECaaS)
Call center as a service (CCaaS)
Analytics as a service (AaaS)
Big data as a service (BDaas)
Desktop as a service (DaaS)
IT as a service (ITaaS)
As a manager, you should evaluate your current business use cases and needs and determine the suitability of a cloud-based as-a-service solutions. Recall the Oracle MySQL Cloud from Chapter 6, “Data Storage in the Cloud,” for example. The Oracle MySQL Cloud was a DBaaS solution that allows developers to quickly spin up a MySQL database in the cloud without having to spin up a server and install and configure MySQL. In this way, the developers can focus on database development as opposed to database administration.