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Lecture 9
Lecture 9
Lecture 9
1. Objective
There are three categories of Cloud Computing Architecture such as
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as
a service (SaaS). Infrastructure as a service is a type of Cloud Computing
which serves the customer with the medium of internet. In this IaaS Tutorial,
we are going to learn the working of Infrastructure as a Service with some
benefits and advantages. At last, we will discuss some IaaS examples.
So, let’s start the Infrastructure as a Service Tutorial.
IaaS reduces the burden to manage and maintain the servers as the
infrastructure provides by the company. Every resource has a separate
component and the customer can rent that as per the requirement. The complete
management is done by the Cloud Service provider. The installation,
configuration, and management of the software are complete by the customer.
3. Working of IaaS
This part shows the architecture of Infrastructure as a Service.
ii. Hardware
The place where the data is stored which can be also known as the
infrastructure or hardware. It is made reliable and secure where the data stores.
It includes many offerings such as virtual server space, network connections,
bandwidth, IP addresses, and load balancers.
iii. Servers
The servers are maintained by the Cloud providers and totally managed by
them. These servers and networks distributed across numerous data centres.
These data centres are secured by cloud providers.
4. Advantages of Infrastructure as a Service
Following are the advantages of Infrastructure as a Service, let’s read them one
by one:
v. Better Compatibility
There is no need to maintain and upgrade software and hardware or to
troubleshoot the problems as there are very fewer compatibility issues with it.
ii. Pay-as-you-go
The Cloud service is economical and the customer charge only for what they
have used. This saves the extra cost and expands the business very quickly.
iii. Secure
The data stored is secured as the snapshots of the data are stored in many places
so if in case a disaster takes place the data can retrieve from other places.
Moreover, the data is secure and can access by the allotted authorities only.
7. IaaS Examples
Let’s see an example of Infrastructure as a Service:
i. Business Networks
In a business network, a pooled server and networking resources which use a
business will store information and run applications. Increasing businesses will
scale their infrastructure in accordance with growth.
So, this was all about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Tutorial. Hope you
liked our explanation.
8. Conclusion
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a good model for workloads that are
temporary, experimental or that which amend unexpectedly. For instance, if a
business is developing a new software product, it’d be more cost effective to
host and test the application using an IaaS provider. Once the new code tested
and refined, the business will take away it from the IaaS surroundings for a
more traditional, in-house deployment. Conversely, the business may commit
that piece of code to a long Infrastructure as a service deployment, wherever
the price of a long commitment is also less.
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