Infrastructure as a Service Platform
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An Infrastructure as a Service Platform is a cloud service platform that provides infrastructure as a service resources.
- AKA: IaaS Platform, Infrastructure Cloud Platform, IaaS Cloud.
- Context:
- It can typically provision Infrastructure as a Service Compute Resource through infrastructure as a service virtual machines.
- It can typically provide Infrastructure as a Service Storage Resource through infrastructure as a service block storage.
- It can typically deliver Infrastructure as a Service Network Resource through infrastructure as a service virtual networks.
- It can typically enable Infrastructure as a Service Scalability through infrastructure as a service elastic scaling.
- It can typically support Infrastructure as a Service Management through infrastructure as a service control panels.
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- It can often implement Infrastructure as a Service Security through infrastructure as a service access control.
- It can often provide Infrastructure as a Service Monitoring through infrastructure as a service metric collection.
- It can often enable Infrastructure as a Service Automation through infrastructure as a service apis.
- It can often support Infrastructure as a Service Billing through infrastructure as a service usage tracking.
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- It can range from being a Basic Infrastructure as a Service Platform to being an Enterprise Infrastructure as a Service Platform, depending on its infrastructure as a service feature complexity.
- It can range from being a Public Infrastructure as a Service Platform to being a Private Infrastructure as a Service Platform, depending on its infrastructure as a service deployment model.
- It can range from being a Regional Infrastructure as a Service Platform to being a Global Infrastructure as a Service Platform, depending on its infrastructure as a service geographic coverage.
- It can range from being a General-Purpose Infrastructure as a Service Platform to being a Specialized Infrastructure as a Service Platform, depending on its infrastructure as a service workload focus.
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- It can integrate with Infrastructure as a Service Orchestration Tool for infrastructure as a service resource management.
- It can connect to Infrastructure as a Service Load Balancer for infrastructure as a service traffic distribution.
- It can interface with Infrastructure as a Service Backup System for infrastructure as a service data protection.
- It can communicate with Infrastructure as a Service Security System for infrastructure as a service threat protection.
- It can synchronize with Infrastructure as a Service Monitoring System for infrastructure as a service observability.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- Platform as a Service, which provides application platforms rather than infrastructure as a service raw resources.
- Software as a Service, which delivers complete applications rather than infrastructure as a service infrastructure.
- On-Premise Infrastructure, which requires local management rather than infrastructure as a service cloud delivery.
- See: Cloud Service Model, Cloud Computing Platform, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, Virtual Machine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Networking, Cloud Provider, Infrastructure Management.