Chapter 5
Understanding Infrastructure as a Service
In This Chapter
Understanding the key characteristics of IaaS
Considering the role of private IaaS
Using Iaas
Examining Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud
What Infrastructure as a Service means to you
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the most straightforward of the four models for delivering cloud services. IaaS is the virtual delivery of computing resources in the form of hardware, networking, and storage services. It may also include the delivery of operating systems and virtualization technology to manage the resources. Rather than buying and installing the required resources in their own data center, companies are renting these required resources on an as-needed basis.
Many companies with a hybrid environment are likely to include IaaS in some form because IaaS is a highly practical solution for companies with various IT resource challenges. Whether a company needs additional resources to support a temporary development project, ...
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