Lionel Sujay Vailshery
Research expert covering cloud computing and emerging tech industries
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - statistics & facts
In the ever-evolving realm of cloud computing, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) stands as a fundamental cornerstone, shaping how businesses deploy and manage their digital infrastructure. Alongside software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is one of the core service models of cloud computing. Under the IaaS model, customers (often enterprises rather than individuals) are permitted to provision and access virtualized hardware and resources such as servers, networks, storage, or virtual machines. In other words, the customer does not hold responsibility for maintaining or developing these resources but instead is free to focus on managing higher-level resources, such as the platform, the operating system, or the necessary software. In this way, customers pay only for what they consume.
