While Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) differ in their first-class citizens, with IaaS focusing on servers and PaaS focusing on applications, lessons from PaaS provider Cloud Foundry could be applied to IaaS. Specifically, Cloud Foundry treats applications as first-class citizens, and this approach could potentially be adopted by IaaS providers as well by also making applications their top priority.

1. What lessons can Cloud Foundry teach to IaaS?

2. PaaS != IaaS The first-class citizens are different

3. First Class Citizens
IaaS = Servers, Buckets, Load Balancers, Etc.
PaaS = Apps

4. What if?
IaaS = Apps
PaaS = Apps

5. What if?
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6. Thank you!
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