Which components typically comprise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers?
Which components typically comprise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers?
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) typically comprises hardware, which includes physical servers and storage; APIs, which allow users to interact programmatically with the services; and core connectivity & delivery, which ensures the integration and orchestrated delivery of these resources to the end users.
Thus IaaS consists of a facility, hardware, an abstraction layer, an orchestration (core connectivity and delivery) layer to tie together the abstracted resources, and APIs to remotely manage the resources and deliver them to consumers.