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Is AKS considered an IaaS or Paas?
Is ACS considered an Iaas?
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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@vipullag-MSFT ACS is mentioned as PaaS on documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/azure-compute-fundamentals/azure-container-services
NVM ACI is different from ACS :P
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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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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.
JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION PLEASE !!!
IS IT A PAAS OR NOT ?
STOP WAPHELLING!!!
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No body knows
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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.
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.
