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IaaS

devopsintermediate

IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service, and it’s the lowest level of service available in the modern cloud ecosystem. The provider, be it AWS or Google or Azure, rents out space on a server to you, and the rest is up to you to run and manage. Contrast this with Platform as a service, another level up, where they charge you extra to manage the infrastructure for you. These days, all of the major cloud providers offer products across the gamut: IaaS, PaaS, and even SaaS (fully managed).

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What's cloud?

Cloud is how companies rent infrastructure over the internet.

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Vercel builds a frontend-as-a-service product – they make it easy for engineers to deploy and run the user facing parts of their applications.

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