Infrastructure as a service, or IaaS, refers to a model where cloud services provide on-demand access to resources for storage, high performance servers, databases, virtual machines, and more. They are very useful for organisations or individuals which require access to a range of specialised services and resources, however who may not have the capacity, funding or resources themselves to do so. Here are some great reasons to opt for and use IaaS solutions:
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Reduced cost to you - you would not have to buy and pay for all of the different resources and equipment that you may need, you would only be paying the package and fees from the IaaS provider, allowing you to use what you need, hence reducing potential overspending
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Compatibility is made easier - as these range of services are native to that cloud provider, there would be a great degree of interoperability between them, hence this reduces the hassle of having to manually setup and integrate services and infrastructure from several completely different providers
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Increased security assured by your provider - as these IaaS services are typically offered by major organisations such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google, there is an increased assurance that your data will be safer
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Increased scalability - you may be constrained, quite possibly due to budget, by your system resources, however through IaaS you can horizontally and vertically scale to fit your needs, particularly over time where your use cases and requirements grow
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Enhanced ability to monitor and log data - IaaS providers typically have measures in place to automatically detect, collect and store data regarding your server usages, attempted access and relevant traffic