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What is IaaS?
IaaS: Infrastructure as a service
Infrastructure as a Service IaaS, a form of cloud computing provides you the instant computing infrastructure,
physical or (quite often) and manage over the internet. It is the foundation of cloud computing that provides
the raw material or resources over the internet like virtual-machine disk image library, block and file-based
storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area networks etc. on demand from their large
pools of equipment installed in data centers and user have to pay for the resources they consume. Quickly scal-
able and eliminate the expense and complexity of purchasing hardware and manages own physical servers and
other data center infrastructure.
Infrastructure as a Service is one of the layers of cloud computing works as a self-service
model for accessing, monitoring, and managing remote datacenter infrastructure including servers,
storage, and networking hardware, as well as the virtualization or hypervisor layer. The cloud computing
service provider also supplies a range of services to accompany the infrastructure components
including detailed billing, monitoring, log access, security, load balancing, as well as storage ser-
vices such as backup, replication, and recovery. IaaS can be used to extend datacenters and to make
available custom services to the world as the purchasing of high-end hardware is not an issue anymore.
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