Infrastructure as a Service

IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service. In this model of cloud, you can subscribe to the complete infrastructure (networking, computing, and storage) that is required to run your application. Here, you will get the building blocks that you need to assemble to run your application as per your requirement. Suppose you want to run one web application that is developed in PHP and MySQL. To run this on the IaaS platform you need to subscribe to computing, networking, and storage. Now, you will configure each of them to run your application.

As we have now got a fair understanding of the cloud and cloud models, let's see the architecture so that we can correlate it when we start learning about the security aspects: ...

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