- Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides scalable applications and services through standards-based components at multiple levels, robust tooling for cloud deployment, and automated governance. - Stratos is a full middleware platform available as a service that provides self-service provisioning, multi-tenancy, elastic scaling, metering and billing through a collection of modular services. - StratosLive is the public PaaS offering from Stratos that provides all the core Stratos services as a fully-managed cloud platform.