XaaS
Cloud computing has pioneered the distribution model for elastic, pay-as-you-go, on-demand IT hosted services. Any part of the IT delivered as a service is loosely covered under the broad theme of cloud computing.
Within the cloud computing theme, depending on the type of IT service, there are various terms for specific services of the cloud. Most of the terms are different variations of the term XaaS, where X is a placeholder that can be changed to represent multiple things.
Let's see the most common delivery models for cloud computing:
- IaaS: When the computing resources (compute, network, and storage) are provided as a service to deploy and run operating systems and applications, it is termed as IaaS. If the organization does not want to invest in building data centers and buying servers and storage, this is a right choice of service to take advantage of. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are leading examples of IaaS providers. In this model, you are responsible...