# What Isn't A PaaS

DevFeed: [What Isn't A PaaS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-isn-t-a-paas-15422.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.fermyon.com/blog/what-isnt-paas>)

Author: Matt Butcher

Published: 2025-01-06T12:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Fermyon - Experience the next wave of cloud computing.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/fermyon-experience-the-next-wave-of-cloud-computing.md>)

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [infrastructure-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-engineering.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that tools requiring developers to perform infrastructure engineering are not true PaaS offerings, because the promise of PaaS is deploying an app without additional infrastructure configuration.

## Source excerpt

The promise of PaaS is that developers can build an app, and then deploy it without having to do any additional infrastructure configuration. But a few recent tools claim to be PaaS, yet force developers to do infrastructure engineering. These tools are not actually PaaSes.