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As-a-service may be more than you think

Cisco Retail

It was 11 years after the Webex SaaS model to AWS launching its first-generation IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service), EC2 in 2006, with Google Cloud and Azure following closely in 2008 and 2010. For example, some people think that NaaS is just an operating expense model to pay for networking services like a lease.