Cloud engine models

The service-oriented architect evaluates everything as a service (EaaS, XaaS or AAS). Cloud computing providers offer services in various formats: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). In the following part, we are going to talk about those formats.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

IaaS includes online services designed to respond to various low-level details of network infrastructure, such as physical computing resources, location, data segmentation, scaling, security, backup, and top-level APIs.

Linux containers work in isolated sections of a single Linux kernel running directly on physical hardware. Linux groups and namespaces are used to...