Whenever a new technology trend takes off, a funny problem arises the problem of prefixes. I have covered prefixes for different Kubernetes distributions in an internal document a few months back and I will make it public soon. Today I am going to have a funny take on different flavors of As-a-Service offerings and is they are enough to make a periodic table-like structure.

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Alphabetic Table

Periodic table containers over 100 elements so that may be slight overkill for now. Let's start with 26 alphabets as prefixes and let's see how far we can go:

1. AaaS = Analytics as a Service

2. BaaS = Backend as a Service

3. CaaS = Containers as a Service | Content as a Service

4. DaaS | DBass = Data as a Service | Database as a Service

5. EaaS = Environments as a Service | roost.ai

6. FaaS = Functions as a Service | AWS Lambda | Azure Functions

7. GaaS = Games as a Service

8. HaaS = Hardware as a Service

9. IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service

10. JaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)

11. KaaS = Knowledge as a Service

12. LaaS = Logging as a Service | Location as a Service

13. MaaS = Monitoring as a Service

14. NaaS = Network as a Service

15. OaaS = Operations as a Service

16. PaaS =Platform as a Service

17. QaaS | QAaas = Quality as a Service

18. RaaS = Recovery as a Service

19. SaaS = Software as a Service

20. TaaS = Testing as a Service

21. UaaS | UCass = Unified Communications as a Service

22. VaaS = Video as a Service

23. WaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)

24. XaaS = Everything as a Service

25. YaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)

26. ZaaS = Vacant spot (there are some vendor acronyms which I am ignoring)