Today, IaaS is most commonly used for dev and test environments, customer-facing websites and web applications, data storage, analytics and data warehousing workloads, and backup and recovery, particularly for on-premises workloads.
What does IaaS stand for?
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a type of cloud computing service that offers essential compute, storage, and networking resources on demand, on a pay-as-you-go basis. IaaS is one of the four types of cloud services, along with software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and serverless.
What industries use IaaS?
IaaS gives the client the most control over the cloud infrastructure. Bigger institutions such health systems, hospitals, medical groups, and organizations with high numbers of employees and documents need to consider the importance of having control over operating systems, storage, and deployed applications.3 may 2018
When would a company use IaaS?
Using IaaS allows you to free up your team to focus on your organization's core business rather than on IT infrastructure. It also allows you to create a computing infrastructure that can be ready in minutes or hours, rather than days or weeks it could take when your setting up internally.30 may 2020
What type of companies use IaaS?
- Digital Ocean.
- IBM Cloud.
- Amazon AWS.
- Microsoft Azure.
- OpenStack.
- Rackspace.
- VMware.
- Red Hat.