What is Infrastructure as a Service?

What exactly is Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)? Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) is a IT service where virtualized computing resources are provided through world wide web a.k.a the internet. Usually, infrastructure components are hosted by a cloud provider that involves storage space, servers, hardware for the network, and the hypervisor layer in IaaS model. To accompany infrastructure assets, various kind of services are also provided by the IaaS provider where detailed billing, monitoring, log access, security, load balancing, and clustering, backup, replication, as well as recovery are also included. IaaS services allow users to be able to do automation on higher efficiency and manage crucial processes of infrastructure. Policies such as driving load balancing to preserve application availability as well as its performance can be implemented by users with the help of IaaS services. Resources and services can be accessed by clients using IaaS through a wide area network and can install an application stack remaining elements by utilizing the cloud provider’s services. For instance, to create virtual machines, install operating systems in each VM, deploy middleware or make storage buckets for workloads and backups, the user is able to log in to the platform of IaaS. It also allows the customers to track costs, monitor performance and balance network traffic as well as solving application errors with the use of services. The participation of a provider is needed by any computing model on cloud. Mostly, the provider will be a third-party organization with the specialization to sell IaaS. A few good examples are independent IaaS providers such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.