Chapter 1. Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Concepts
This chapter discusses Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) concepts with the goal of giving cloud application developers background knowledge and helping them explore why they might want to use cloud computing.
The United States National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) defines cloud computing as a model for convenient and rapid network access to a shared pool of computing resources that can be provisioned with minimal management effort [Mell and Grance, 2009]. According to this definition, cloud computing has five essential characteristics:
• On-demand self-service
• Broad network access
• Multitenancy
• Rapid elasticity
• Measured service (pay as you go)
NIST also describes four ...
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