What is infrastructure as a service?

• Commonly referred to as simply “IaaS”
• IaaS is a type of cloud computing that provides:
  • virtualized computing resources over the internet
  • fundamental compute, network, and storage resources to consumers on-demand, over the internet
  • virtualized computing resources to the user through the internet
• IaaS is a cloud computing service where enterprises rent or lease servers for compute and storage in the cloud
• IaaS is made up of a collection of physical and virtualized resources that provide consumers with the basic building blocks needed to run applications and workloads in the cloud
• IaaS helps the users to avoid the cost and complexity of purchasing and managing their own physical servers

Note: In computing, infrastructure refers to the computers and servers that run code and store data, and the wires and appliances that make connections between those machines

Azure IaaS

IaaS in Azure:

• Azure Compute (Virtual machines)
• Azure Storage

Usage scenarios

• Test and development
• Storage and backup
• High Performance Computing
• Big data analysis