As-a-Service Periodic Table

Whenever a new technology trend takes off, a funny problem arises the problem of prefixes. I have covered prefixes for different Kubernetes distributions in an internal document a few months back and I will make it public soon. Today I am going to have a funny take on different flavors of As-a-Service offerings and is they are enough to make a periodic table-like structure.

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Alphabetic Table

Periodic table containers over 100 elements so that may be slight overkill for now. Let’s start with 26 alphabets as prefixes and let’s see how far we can go:

1. AaaS = Analytics as a Service
2. BaaS = Backend as a Service
3. CaaS = Containers as a Service | Content as a Service
4. DaaS | DBass = Data as a Service | Database as a Service
5. EaaS = Environments as a Service | roost.ai
6. FaaS = Functions as a Service | AWS Lambda | Azure Functions
7. GaaS = Games as a Service
8. HaaS = Hardware as a Service
9. IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service
10. JaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)
11. KaaS = Knowledge as a Service
12. LaaS = Logging as a Service | Location as a Service
13. MaaS = Monitoring as a Service
14. NaaS = Network as a Service
15. OaaS = Operations as a Service
16. PaaS =Platform as a Service
17. QaaS | QAaas = Quality as a Service
18. RaaS = Recovery as a Service
19. SaaS = Software as a Service
20. TaaS = Testing as a Service
21. UaaS | UCass = Unified Communications as a Service
22. VaaS = Video as a Service
23. WaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)
24. XaaS = Everything as a Service
25. YaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)
26. ZaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)

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