Examples of the Infrastructure as a Service
There are many niche vendors in the IaaS marketplace including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, CenturyLink Cloud, Joyent and more. Users will need to consider the factors before choosing a provider such as flexibility, reliability, services, and costs. Amazon Web Services( AWS) is the most popular IaaS vendor that provides good pre and after consultations with storage services such as Simple Storage Services( S3) and Glacier as well as Elastic Compute Cloud service all at affordable price. GCP( Google Cloud Platform) is a bit costly compared to AWS and offers storage and compute services through Google Compute Engine( GCE). Microsoft is next with their Microsoft Azure services that not only build apps but also host and distribute them. It is also among the above examples that are scalable as well as build on-demand infrastructure.
Benefits of the IaaS
IaaS offers many tangible benefits for enterprises by taking advantage of the elasticity and flexibility of the cloud to deliver infrastructure and to create cost-effective scalable IT solutions and drastically reducing time to market. Since IaaS reduces the complexity and expenses of managing the underlying hardware, there is no single point of service failure and will be unaffected. Infrastructure as a Service allows their users to access the service from anywhere using the internet as the IaaS cloud service is location independence. IaaS provide better security for applications and data and doesn’ t require any maintenance and up gradation of software or hardware. Since the service provider is responsible and reliable, you don’ t have to worry and can focus on rolling out applications instead.
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