Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) - Cloud Computing

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IAAS - Infrastructure as a Service

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are online services that provide high-level APIs used to dereference various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, backup etc. A hypervisor, such as Xen, Oracle VirtualBox, Oracle VM, KVM, VMware ESX/ESXi, or Hyper-V runs the virtual machines as guests. Pools of hypervisors within the cloud operational system can support large numbers of virtual machines and the ability to scale services up and down according to customers’ varying requirements.

Advantages of IAAS
Taken in consideration there are many points which makes this model best for the cloud computing. Those are listed below.

  1. Pay As You Go
  2. Speed
  3. Avaliablity
  4. Scale
  5. Latency and Performance

As listed, IAAS is better in all the terms compared to all other traditional models and all comparative models like PAAS and SAAS.

You could find more information on all of these topics from the home page.


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What Is IaaS? IaaS Security in the CloudMcAfee. (2019). Retrieved December 22, 2021, from Mcafee.com website: https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-ca/security-awareness/cloud/what-is-iaas.html

Wikipedia Contributors. (2021, April 19). Infrastructure as a service. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from Wikipedia website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_a_service