Second much of the PaaS services on Azure span PaaS and IaaS deployments letting you easily mix VM role and Worker role components in the same service; sharing the same network configuration ...

As cloud services become more automated, the line between IaaS and PaaS continues ... everything from enterprise architecture down to gadgets. He is the author of Azure AI Services at Scale ...

It has reached a point where Windows Azure has become the polyglot PaaS and semi IaaS offering ... to be highly elastic and due to Windows Azure architecture, achieving rapid elasticity was ...