As part of an efficiently improvement plan, a company would like to reduce its IT costs by removing all responsibilities related to deployment and management of servers and storage, but retain full control over operating systems, applications and data security. What cloud computing services model should the company consider?

Select answer from the options below

infrastructure$-$as$-$a$-$service

on$-$premise software

software$-$as$-$a$-$service

platform$-$as$-$a$-$service