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This document discusses Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) which provides access to fundamental computing resources like virtual machines and storage through virtualization. IaaS allows customers full control over resources and flexible renting of hardware. It also enables portability between cloud providers and interoperability with legacy applications.

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Cloud Computing Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) - Tutorialspoint

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Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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.

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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:

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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

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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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