Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)

What is infrastructure as a service?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing model in which a third-party provider delivers infrastructure resources over the Internet. These resources can include physical or virtual servers, storage, networks, and other basic computing infrastructure components.

IaaS is a flexible and scalable model that allows companies to pay only for the infrastructure resources they need, when they need them. This can be more cost-effective than building and maintaining an in-house infrastructure.

In an IaaS model, the provider is responsible for the maintaining and managing the infrastructure, while the user is responsible for the operating systems, applications, and data. This is one of the reasons, why IaaS is often used by companies to outsource the maintenance and management of their non-critical IT infrastructure, so they can focus on their core business activities. In addition, infrastructure resources can be scale up or down as needed, making IaaS a cost-effective and flexible solution for many companies.

In addition, It can also be used also to scale up or down infrastructure resources as needed, making it a cost-effective and flexible solution for many organizations.

IaaS is commonly used to support the deployment of applications and cloud services in an environment and is one of the three basic categories of cloud services along with Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). It is the most basic level of cloud computing, providing only the infrastructure resources and leaving the responsibility for installing, configuring, and maintaining software and applications to the user.