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

Tay Jd 21 Reputation points
2020-10-13T03:52:14.857+00:00

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

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
An Azure service that provides serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance.
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  1. vipullag-MSFT 25,611 Reputation points
    2020-10-13T05:07:23.623+00:00

    @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).

    Please 'Accept as answer' if the provided information is helpful, so that it can help others in the community looking for help on similar topics.

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  1. Shreedhar Thimmegowda 26 Reputation points
    2020-10-13T05:24:07.603+00:00

    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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  2. Hanbury, Pete 35 Reputation points
    2023-06-21T09:30:40.19+00:00

    JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION PLEASE !!!

    IS IT A PAAS OR NOT ?

    STOP WAPHELLING!!!

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  3. Ruhela, Shubham 0 Reputation points
    2023-08-12T04:46:34.8333333+00:00

    No body knows

  4. SOMASHEKAR HS 0 Reputation points
    2024-06-18T10:10:45.7866667+00:00

    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.