IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): A Comprehensive Overview

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), a cloud computing model that offers on-demand access to computing resources such as servers, storage, and networking. It explores the key concepts, architecture, benefits, drawbacks, and prominent IaaS providers. The presentation also delves into the values and significance of IaaS in modern IT infrastructure.

IaaS (Infrastructure as a
Service)

INTRODUCTION
• IaaS is the service that offers the complete infrastructure
allocation on cloud and make it available for the purpose of
utilization.
• Various resources are provided as the Service and it also
allows elasticity and scaling dynamically.
• The cost of this service vary according to the need that
means pricing model is set according to usage (Li, Qui, Ming,
and Quan, 2012).
• It has the architecture of multi-tenet that allows multiple
users to use the same hardware.

IAAS Resources
• Web Hosting
• Firewalls
• Application Support
• Data maintenance and storage
• Power backup system and data backup
• Support applications and operating systems
• Recovery from disaster
• Load archiving and balancing
• Helpdesk
• Virtualization
• Elasticity (Somasundaram and Govindarajan, 2011).

Architecture of IaaS Cloud
Platform

Key Concepts of IaaS
Development Application
• Resources pooling
• Cloud bursting
• Hypervisor
• Computing Multi-tenant
• Focus on the development of code.
• Database
• Servers
• Open platform
• Code development without installation (Qaisar, 2012).

Various IaaS Providers
• Amazon AWS
• Digital Ocean
• Microsoft Azure
• Rackspace
• Google Engine
• SmartCloud
• OpenStack
• Cloudstack (Garg, Versteeg and Buyya, 2013).

Positives Aspects of IaaS
Services
• Cost effective and savings.
• Services are flexible and are scalable.
• Provide the fast execution and fast time to market.
• The availability is very high and support BC, DR and many
more.
• Focus on the growth of business (Lee, Yan, and Zhao,
2011).
• Saves the time of IT staff and help the environment.

Negative Aspects of IaaS
Services
•Sometimes expensive.
•Backup is created by the client only.
•The server control is poor.
•Limits the requirements in some case.
•Required connection of internet with high
speed.

IaaS Values
•IT (information Technology)
•UI (User Interface)
•ROI (Return of Investment)
•SLA (Service Level Agreement)
•API (Application Programming Interface)

Summary
• In this section, the discussion is made on the IaaS Cloud Services. In
this presentation, the topics which are being covered are:
 IaaS Basic Introduction
 IaaS Resources
 IaaS Architecture
 IaaS Key Concepts
IaaS Service Providers
IaaS Positives aspects
IaaS Negative Aspects
IaaS Values

References
• Garg, S.K., Versteeg, S. and Buyya, R., 2013. A framework for ranking
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• Lee, B.S., Yan, S., Ma, D. and Zhao, G., 2011, March. Aggregating iaas
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• Li, J., Qiu, M., Ming, Z., Quan, G., Qin, X. and Gu, Z., 2012. Online
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677.

References (contd.)
• Qaisar, E.J., 2012, March. Introduction to cloud computing for
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