IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Services in Azure

 

What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)?

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure, provisioned, and managed over the internet. IaaS quickly scales up and down with demand, letting you pay only for what you use.

It helps you avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers and other datacenters infrastructure.

Common IaaS Scenarios

• Test and development
• Website hosting
• Web apps
• High-performance computing
• Big data analysis

Advantages of IaaS

• Eliminates capital expense and reduces ongoing cost
• Improves business continuity and disaster recovery
• Innovate rapidly
• Respond quicker to shifting business conditions
• Focus on your core business
• Increase stability, reliability, and supportability
• Better Security
• Gets new applications for users faster

IaaS Services available in Azure

Below are Azure's IaaS services belongs to different categories:

Compute

Azure Vmware Solutions  - Run your VMWare works natively on Azure

Azure Dedicated Host  - Deploy your Azure virtual machines on a physical server only used by your organization

Virtual Machines  - Provision Linux and Windows virtual machines in seconds with the configurations of your choice

VM Scale Sets  - Achieve high availability by autoscaling to create thousands of VMs in minutes

Networking

Azure Firewall  - Native firewall capabilities with built-in high availability and zero maintenance

Azure ExpressRoute  - Add private network connectivity from your corporate network to cloud

Azure Load Balancer  - Balance inbound and outbound connections and requests to applications

Network Watcher  - Monitor and diagnose network issues

Azure Private Link  - Private access to services hosted on the Azure platform

Traffic Manager  - Route incoming traffic for better performance and availability

Azure Virtual Network  - Connect everything from virtual machines to incoming VPN connections

Azure Virtual WAN  - Connect business offices, retail locations, and sites securely with a unified portal

VPN Gateway  - Securely use the internet to access Azure Virtual Networks

Storage

Azure Storage - Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed cloud service that provides storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant.

Managed Disks - Azure managed disks are block-level storage volumes that are managed by Azure and used with Azure Virtual Machines.