July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
8h
English
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Infrastructure as a Service
The following are the key points that describe IaaS:
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Unlike SaaS offerings, in IaaS, the customer is provided with IT resources, such as bare metal machines to run applications, hard disk for storage, and network cable for network capability, which they can customize based on their business model.
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In IaaS offerings, since the customer has full access to their infrastructure, they can scale their IT resources based on their application requirement. Also, in IaaS offerings, the customer has to manage the security of the application/resources, and needs to build disaster recovery models in case of sudden failures/crashes.
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In IaaS, services are on an on-demand basis, where the customer is charged on usage. So, ...