Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Infrastructure as a Service (commonly abbreviated IaaS) is the delivery of computer infrastructure (typically a platform virtualization environment, server or managed hosting provider) as a service.

Focus

The focus of IaaS is on the provisioning of specific Server configurations, instances, nodes and clusters of nodes.

RaaS

• Resistance as a Service (RaaS): https://hackernoon.com/resistance-as-a-service-a6a9cd14192f
• IPFS: https://ipfs.io (A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, & more open)

Resources

• Apache UIMA - Unstructured Information Management (UIMA): http://uima.apache.org/

Tutorials

• IaaS vs. CaaS vs. PaaS vs. FaaS -- Choosing the Right Platform: https://dzone.com/articles/iaas-vs-caas-vs-paas-vs-faas-choosing-the-right-platform
• 5 Lessons Learned From Writing Over 300,000 Lines of Infrastructure Code: https://blog.gruntwork.io/5-lessons-learned-from-writing-over-300-000-lines-of-infrastructure-code-36ba7fadeac1

External Links

• wikipedia: IaaS
• Sony Mobile Starts "Drones As A Service" DaaS Business for New Market: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/254731/sony-mobile-starts-drone-business-for-new-market.html
• Chef outage fuels technology ethics debate: http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252471744/Chef-outage-fuels-technology-ethics-debate

See Also

Cloud | SOA | Server | Virtualization | Container | CI/CD/CDD | PaaS | SaaS | CaaS