Cloud service models
The services offered by cloud computing are further divided into different service models—infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). This classification is done to segregate the different types of services a user can purchase to meet their business needs in a cloud computing environment.
IaaS is the cloud service model that enables the user provision virtualized hardware resources on demand. Physically, these resources could be spread across multiple data centers, which the service provider maintains. These resources include the virtual storage, network connections, and load balancers for the provisioned hardware resource. The user can use the resource on demand and pay ...
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