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How to explain on-prem vs. O365 vs. hosted (aws for example)
Is the description "on-prem" technically/strictly referring to when we have our own servers in-house? Or can that also apply for example when running a SP farm in a hosted VM? And I assume all that's...
Interesting question, Microsoft describe the environments that the on-prem Sharepoint server solutions can be run from as:
- On-premises, physical or virtual
- Private cloud (in-house)
- Private cloud (hosted)
- Public cloud
"Customers install and configure SharePoint 2013 on-premises solutions on servers that the customer owns and maintains, or on a hosted infrastructure that another organization provides."
There is a lot more here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh128769.aspx
SharePoint Online is described as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. It goes on to talk about hybrid and lots more info.