One of the key characteristics of GridGain architecture is its independence from any specific IaaS or PaaS giving its users a freedom and flexibility to scale on any infrastructure or deployment platform.

GridGain is an application middleware and is located on the stack closest to the application layer. GridGain can work with any PaaS or directly with any IaaS or both in the same time. This gives a tremendous flexibility to how GridGain can be used in development, testing and production deployment.