Is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) an IaaS or Paas?

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Is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) an IaaS or Paas?

Tay Jd 21

Is AKS considered an IaaS or Paas?
Is ACS considered an Iaas?

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vipullag-MSFT 26,537 Moderator

@Tay Jd

AKS is a managed service more of a PaaS. However, the underlying Infra is exposed to CX. But, it is not recommended to manipulation of the IaaS resources.

Azure Container service was more of a Iaas offering which was supporting container orchestration. However, ACS is retired now (ref: doc).

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Sumit Kumar 11 Reputation points

2022-05-31T06:54:12.827+00:00

@vipullag-MSFT ACS is mentioned as PaaS on documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/azure-compute-fundamentals/azure-container-services
Sumit Kumar 11 Reputation points

2022-05-31T06:56:15.057+00:00

NVM ACI is different from ACS :P
Pawel Solarski 0 Reputation points

2023-05-31T20:16:31.5766667+00:00

There should be no fuzzy logic here: its either IaaS or PaaS, not "more like PaaS". Some people are asked such questions in MS Certificate exams. And MS docs says: "AKS is not PaaS". See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/support-policies

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Shreedhar Thimmegowda 26

In addition to @vipullag-MSFT , AKS is just kind of PaaS wrapper over underlying VM scale-set used for the cluster. You just pay for the worker nodes that are part of the VM scale-set, which technically a IaaS. the managers are wrapper PaaS service, which Azure takes care.

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Hanbury, Pete 45

JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION PLEASE !!!

IS IT A PAAS OR NOT ?

STOP WAPHELLING!!!

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SOMASHEKAR HS 5

this is from a Technet article. AKS is an IaaS offering.

AKS isn't a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution. Some components, such as agent nodes, have shared responsibility, where you must help maintain the AKS cluster. User input is required, for example, to apply an agent node operating system (OS) security patch.

Marek Grzenkowicz 0 Reputation points

2024-06-22T12:43:27.1266667+00:00

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/support-policies#managed-features-in-aks:~:text=AKS%20isn%27t%20a%20Platform%2Das%2Da%2DService%20(PaaS)%20solution

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Ruhela, Shubham 5

No body knows

SOMASHEKAR HS 5 Reputation points

2024-06-18T10:09:58.2933333+00:00

AKS isn't a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution. Some components, such as agent nodes, have shared responsibility, where you must help maintain the AKS cluster. User input is required, for example, to apply an agent node operating system (OS) security patch.

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