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    Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides access to fundamental computing resources like physical and virtual machines, storage, and networking components that are made available to customers via virtualization. Customers have full administrative control over the virtual machines and pay based on usage, allowing flexible and efficient renting of hardware resources. While IaaS offers portability and interoperability for legacy applications, it also presents issues like security vulnerabilities in older software, ensuring virtual machine and data isolation between customers, and thoroughly erasing data from reused resources.

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    Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides access to fundamental computing resources like physical and virtual machines, storage, and networking components that are made available to customers via virtualization. Customers have full administrative control over the virtual machines and pay based on usage, allowing flexible and efficient renting of hardware resources. While IaaS offers portability and interoperability for legacy applications, it also presents issues like security vulnerabilities in older software, ensuring virtual machine and data isolation between customers, and thoroughly erasing data from reused resources.

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    Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides access to fundamental computing resources like physical and virtual machines, storage, and networking components that are made available to customers via virtualization. Customers have full administrative control over the virtual machines and pay based on usage, allowing flexible and efficient renting of hardware resources. While IaaS offers portability and interoperability for legacy applications, it also presents issues like security vulnerabilities in older software, ensuring virtual machine and data isolation between customers, and thoroughly erasing data from reused resources.

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    Cloud Computing

    Infrastructure as a Service
    (IaaS)

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    Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides access to


    fundamental resources such as physical
    machines, virtual machines, virtual storage, etc.
    Apart from these resources, the IaaS also
    offers:

    Virtual machine disk storage


    Virtual local area network (VLANs)
    Load balancers
    IP addresses
    Software bundles
    All of the above resources are made available
    to end user via server virtualization. Moreover,
    these resources are accessed by the customers
    as if they own them.

    Benefits
    IaaS  allows the cloud provider to freely locate
    the infrastructure over the Internet in a cost-
    effective manner. Some of the key benefits of
    IaaS are listed below:

    Full control of the computing resources


    through administrative access to VMs.
    Flexible and efficient renting of computer
    hardware.
    Portability, interoperability with legacy
    applications.

    Full control over computing resources


    through administrative access to VMs
    IaaS allows the customer to access computing
    resources through administrative access to
    virtual machines in the following manner:

    Customer issues administrative command


    to cloud provider to run the virtual machine
    or to save data on cloud server.
    Customer issues administrative command
    to virtual machines they owned to start
    web server or to install new applications.

    Flexible and efficient renting of


    computer hardware
    IaaS resources such as virtual machines,
    storage devices, bandwidth, IP addresses,
    monitoring services, firewalls, etc. are made
    available to the customers on rent. The
    payment is based upon the amount of time the
    customer retains a resource. Also with
    administrative access to virtual machines, the
    customer can run any software, even a custom
    operating system.

    Portability, interoperability with


    legacy applications
    It is possible to maintain legacy between
    applications and workloads between IaaS
    clouds. For example, network applications such
    as web server or e-mail server that normally
    runs on customer-owned server hardware can
    also run from VMs in IaaS cloud.

    Issues
    IaaS shares issues with PaaS and SaaS, such
    as Network dependence and browser based
    risks. It also has some specific issues, which
    are mentioned in the following diagram:
    Compatibility with legacy security
    vulnerabilities
    Because IaaS offers the customer to run legacy
    software in provider's infrastructure, it exposes
    customers to all of the security vulnerabilities
    of such legacy software.

    Virtual Machine sprawl


    The VM can become out-of-date with respect to
    security updates because IaaS allows the
    customer to operate the virtual machines in
    running, suspended and off state. However, the
    provider can automatically update such VMs,
    but this mechanism is hard and complex.

    Robustness of VM-level isolation


    IaaS offers an isolated environment to
    individual customers through hypervisor.
    Hypervisor is a software layer that includes
    hardware support for virtualization to split a
    physical computer into multiple virtual
    machines.

    Data erase practices


    The customer uses virtual machines that in turn
    use the common disk resources provided by the
    cloud provider. When the customer releases the
    resource, the cloud provider must ensure that
    next customer to rent the resource does not
    observe data residue from previous customer.

    Characteristics
    Here are the characteristics of IaaS service
    model:

    Virtual machines with pre-installed


    software.

    Virtual machines with pre-installed


    operating systems such as Windows,
    Linux, and Solaris.

    On-demand availability of resources.


    Allows to store copies of particular data at
    different locations.

    The computing resources can be easily


    scaled up and down.

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