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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 09:12, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This article doesn't describe anything significant - it just summarized PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS, and says you can have APIs to them. It doesn't need an article. The existing "Cloud Computing" article is much better, and perhaps an extra sentence or two in that article could replace this entire article (essentially just saying, "APIs usually exist for *-as-a-service platforms".) GameGod (talk) 22:43, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect or Delete per aboveJohnTombs48 (talk) 06:32, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Retain Article I am learning about Amazon AWS and specifically googled this page title. It is a very helpful explanation on the topic and meets the standards of providing useful information for a newbie developer/business enterprise buyer. I would not easily find PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS - whatever they are - at my skill set level. This article is very readable and non-techy. It is a good starting place to explore the topic.Kyle Andrew Brown (talk) 20:23, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:41, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Original research that, as the nom points out, doesn't really offer any stand-alone information over the main article (cloud computing). As it's entirely unsourced, it's doubtful there's anything worth merging. Kolbasz (talk) 22:13, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete every combination of two buzzwords does not merit an article, if the topic is not independently notable. My usual technical pet peeve of course is that "API" is not really accurate for these anyway, since they are usually really protocols, not programming interfaces, a subtle difference though, since almost all modern usage confuses the two concepts. W Nowicki (talk) 18:23, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.