Understanding the fundamentals of IaaS monitoring
Compute services are the first entry services for anyone studying cloud computing for the first time. Even power users and professionals in cloud computing use compute services. That is where applications built by developers are deployed. Cloud computing can be delivered in three models:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
In the IaaS model of cloud computing delivery, the user is given remote access to on-demand virtual machines, or some dedicated hardware, to host applications. In this chapter, our focus will be on IaaS, as the IaaS model of cloud computing is the building block of cloud computing and where starters and applications migrated to the cloud begin to get a grip of the cloud. So, most users of cloud computing services use the IaaS service. In AWS, the paramount IaaS service is Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is an acronym for Amazon Elastic Compute...
