Karbon Platform Services (KPS) by Nutanix is a Kubernetes-based multicloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) designed to accelerate the development and deployment of microservices-based applications across any cloud. It offers a rich set of managed services, including Kubernetes applications (Containers-as-a-Service), serverless functions (Functions-as-a-Service), global data pipelines, streaming data and message bus (Kafka-aaS, NATS-aaS), AI services (Tensorflow-aaS, Openvino-aaS), ingress controller and service mesh (nginx/traefik-aaS, Istio-aaS), application monitoring and alerting (Prometheus-aaS), and log forwarding. KPS provides simple, SaaS-based multicloud operations, allowing operators to benefit from simplified operations and uniform application, data, and security lifecycle management, regardless of the underlying cloud. Developers can write applications once and deploy them across any cloud through the SaaS-based application lifecycle manager.