Explore the landscape of Platform as a Service (PaaS) options for app deployment in this comprehensive conference talk. Compare and contrast various cloud providers and hosting technologies as the speakers deploy a basic web app and Windows service across multiple platforms, including Azure Web Apps, Azure Container Service, Azure Service Fabric, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon Container Service. Gain valuable insights into the ease and speed of deployment, user-friendliness, available diagnostics, cost implications, and potential frustrations associated with each option. Learn about the PaaS continuum, benefits, development concerns, vendor lock-in, and day-to-day operations. Witness a Visual Studio demo and review scorecards for different deployment methods. By the end of this talk, acquire the knowledge needed to make informed decisions about the best PaaS option for your web and service applications.