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XaaS is the essence of cloud computing.

XaaS is a collective term said to stand for a number of things including "X as a service," "anything as a service" or "everything as a service." It refers to an increasing number of services that are delivered over the Internet rather than provided locally or on-site.

The most common examples of XaaS are

The combined use of these three is sometimes referred to as the SPI model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).

Other examples of XaaS include storage as a service (SaaS - clashing with "Software as a Service"), communications as a service (CaaS), network as a service (NaaS) and monitoring as a service (MaaS).

Following the convention of pronouncing "SaaS" as "sass," "XaaS" is sometimes pronounced as "zass."

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