Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure

All the servers, storage, database settings, network settings, firewalls, load balancers, etc.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

1. Bare servers with Linux or Windows operating systems with nothing on them.
2. Essential services of technology
   1. Computing
   2. Storage
   3. Networking
3. Generally have “real world” equivalents in your own data center
4. Examples
   1. Computing: Azure Virtual Machines, pay by the second, many choices in CPU speeds, RAM, optimizations
   2. Storage: Azure Storage, 5 PB of storage capacity, can handle blobs, files, queues and tables
   3. Networking: Virtual Networking in an example of this. They don’t cost anything. There are ingress and egress bandwidth costs.

Tags

1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools