Jane is a developer looking to deploy an application she created using a programming language...

Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without dealing with the infrastructure. The developer manages the application and its environment; the provider manages infrastructure.

“PaaS allows customers to deploy applications using supported programming languages and tools without managing the underlying infrastructure.”

— ISO/IEC 17788:2014, Section 7.3; ISO/IEC 27017:2015, Section 6.3