Industry Keyword: Billing Models

Introduction The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) infrastructure landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by the rise of the API economy, microservices architectures, and cloud-native application development. As enterprise software strategies shift toward modular, scalable components, API-based access to infrastructure services such as storage, compute, and orchestration has become foundational. This study, which is available in full exclusively to Premium members, explores the technical, economic, and competitive dimensions of this shift, with a particular focus on usage-based billing, hardened Service Level Agreements, and the strategic...