Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service model where a provider delivers virtualized IT infrastructure resources over the internet:
The organization manages:
- Server operating systems
- Data storage
- Applications deployed to servers, such as:
- Web-based enterprise applications
- Database servers
- Management agents, such as host intrusion prevention
The cloud computing service manages the underlying cloud infrastructure, which includes:
- Processing
- Physical storage
- Networks
