From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Public Cloud Options
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Public Cloud Options
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- [Narrator] IaaS, or infrastructure as a service, is a fundamental cloud computing model that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. This is typically a resource you would normally find in a data center, such as storage, compute, databases, AI, and other common IT resources as well. This is the fastest growing public cloud type with major brands in this market, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google. When people refer to the cloud, they're most likely referring to IaaS cloud providers and these big three. IaaS providers basically offer a dashboard, where you can find and provision any number of service types. These service types include functions in brands, such as different types of storage, different databases, different AI tool sets, et cetera. There were over a thousand services normally available from an IaaS provider. This includes the services a specific cloud brand provides as a native service, branded by them or a third party service that the cloud may…
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