Volume 6, Issue 1, January – 2021 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology

ISSN No:-2456-2165

A Brief Analysis of Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Mohammed Eisa Suliman
Faculty of Computer Studies
Arab Open University
Madinah, KSA

Abstract:- Cloud computing is a rapidly growing easily run the different software applications and operating
technology in every field. Cloud architecture help and systems. In the cloud infrastructure service underlying
assures to remove expensive and heavy computer network managed by the cloud service provider but the
hardware maintenance. Cloud architecture introduces an overlying infrastructure such as the operating system and the
IT environment to create a remote infrastructure which is software applications managed and control by the user [3] –
scalable and measure resources. It is used as a service [4]. The given figure - 1 explains the IaaS network Users can
over the internet. It provides cloud services to the users install multiple operating systems on the virtual machine
with full reliability, flexibility, and scalability. In this images. In this way, user can pay on the basis of the allocated
paper, I will cover all the cloud computing concepts, its resources.
services and brief analysis of Cloud Infrastructure as a
Service. In cloud computing infrastructure as a Services
vendor provide the resources in form of infrastructure
user just pay and start their work on it and develop
applications or any development project which required
heavy system to develop such kind of systems.

Keywords:- Cloud Computing; Cloud Services; Infrastructure

as a Service; IaaS Workloads; IaaS Network;

I. INTRODUCTION

Cloud computing is an advanced field with a lot of

flexibility and reliable on-demand computing resources. In
cloud computing, consumers can easily connect from Fig 1: IaaS service network
anywhere and anytime and access cloud resources via the
internet. All these resources are managed in a flexible way. IaaS model components include Computer Hardware,
Cloud computing is a model of enabling technologies that Network and Internet Connections, Platform Virtualization
provide facilities of on-demand network access and cloud Cloud Storage, Cloud Software, Utility Computing and
computing resources that are in different forms for example Service Level Agreement (SLA). IaaS Communicate with
(network, server, storage, application, services) [1]. developers to create Virtual private servers, Virtual private
storage and Virtual private networks. In IaaS all virtual
There are different types of cloud computing models resources are mapped on the physical system. When the
which are private, public, hybrid and community cloud [2]. consumer interacts with IaaS service, it requests the resources
According to these models, the cloud provides the services from the virtual system and these requests are directly
which are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service forward to the real server which actually works on the user
(PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). As I describe requests.
the topic of discussion is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
which is the most basic cloud computing model. It is a set of B. IaaS Security Model
a complete package provided virtual resources from a cloud The security model for IaaS is a complete guide for
service provider. On this infrastructure user can install their enhancing the security of each level of the IaaS model as
own software by using these virtual resources. IaaS vendor shown in the figure – 2 IaaS components of the security
creates a hardware utility service where the consumer uses model and restriction level. The given figure - 2 front side
virtual resources according to their requirements. shows the components – [5]. In this model the three security
entities covers the whole components of IaaS. The first entity
A. Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service is the Secure Configure Policy which provides the guarantee
Infrastructure as a Service provides the basic of a secure configuration of each component which means
fundamentals of computing resources such as processing, each layer in the IaaS either hardware or software is secured.
network, storage, and applications [2]. In IaaS users can Secured management policy controls the management roles

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of each layer of the security model [5] – [7]. The third and the B. Rackspace
last entity are the Security Policy Monitoring and Auditing Rackspace is a cloud computing provider that offers
which is responsible for the system life cycle. So all these cloud storage, virtual private cloud, load balancers, database,
layers are securing the IaaS security of cloud computing. and backup monitoring - [7]. Rackspace launched in 2006, as
a utility computing offering. In 2011 the Rackspace cloud has
become as Rackspace.com. In 2014, Rackspace has become
the company that managed the cloud. Rackspace services
includes Cloud files, API’s, Security, Use Cases, Caveats, and
Cloud Servers. Rackspace has contributed to the open-source
code project which is the OpenStack under the provisioning of
the Apache License. Rackspace launched the OpenStack cloud
to compute service. OpenStack offering the database, server
monitoring, block storage, and the virtual network in the
OpenStack new control panel [13] – [15].

C. Media Temple
Media temple is a cloud service provider that provides
the infrastructure for the development of web hosting and
cloud hosting services. Media temple is mostly used for web
Fig. 2 IaaS Security Model [5] designing, development, and creative content. Media temple
launched GoDaddy in 2013 as a cloud web development
There are some major security challenges in cloud service [17] – [19]. Media temple cloud products are Linux-
computing security such as Third Party Handling Data, Cyber based systems. Media temple offers Grid hosting, WordPress
Attack, Insider Attack, Government Intrusion, Lack of hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated servers, Managed AWS.
Standardization, Data Integrity, Lack of transparency and Media temple offers a 99.99% guarantee of its Dedicated
Insecure API’s. As the advancement 0f every technology, Virtual (DV) hosting. Which includes VPS plans and also the
these challenges are faced and resolved time to time. Cloud company’s hosting plan [20] – [21].
Computing provider also focus on all these challenges and
resolve these issue. D. FlexiScale
FlexiScale cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service,
II. REVIEW OF CLOUD IAAS PROVIDERS delivered as a web-based control panel which allows users to
access and use cloud resources according to their need.
Today, many cloud providers exist that are providing FlexiScale is one of the independent public cloud providers in
their IaaS services for the public as well as the private clouds. Europe which provides the cloud infrastructure as a public
Several providers are available for this purpose including cloud. FlexiScale is the public cloud that host on the basis of
some well-known service providers such as Amazon Web pay as you go service [20].
Services (AWS), Rackspace, Media Temple, Google cloud,
Flexiscale, Joyent Accelerator. I have identified well-known E. Joyent Accelerator
cloud providers that provide IaaS. A brief overview of these Joyent is basically a software services providing
providers is given below: [4] – [7] company which is leading in providing cloud services
Infrastructure as a Service. In 2016 Joyent was acquired by
A. Amazon Web Service Samsung. Joyent introduces a storage service in 2013 with the
AWS cloud is a solution to deliver ready to use their name of Manta [11]. For the networking vendor, Joyent
resources as needed. AWS launched in 2006 from the internal introduces Riverbed which offers the networking content
infrastructure of Amazon.com which handles amazon online deliver.
operations [6]. Amazon is one of the top companies that
introduce the method of pay as you need a cloud computing III. PROPOSED AREA TO IMPROVE IAAS CLOUD
model that provides users with complete infrastructure and SERVICE
resources as needed. Today AWS provides many cloud
services which can be categorized as Compute, Storage In a cloud computing I deeply research about the Cloud
Database, Data Management, Migration, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure as a Service. On the basis of the research, I
Networking, Development tools, Monitoring, Security, purposed some solutions the IaaS services to improve some
Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). areas of the Cloud IaaS for the better resource provides to the
users. The following are the proposed areas of IaaS to
AWS includes many tools and services to help the users improve.
to manage their data in its public cloud. Amazon also
partnered with various other providers which help to develop a A. IaaS workloads
hybrid cloud for Amazon EC2 is the product which uses to In IaaS a server is reserved for customer provisioning.
provide IaaS service - [7]. Which manage the amount of cloud computing resources
according to the user needs for this purpose, users can reserve
a server space required for their need which can easily run

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their workloads. The infrastructure of IaaS runs the servers These above mentioned areas and points are improved,
placed in data centers that offer the services to the cloud users the cloud IaaS service can deliver maximum support to the
[17] – [18]. The main three layers of the IaaS infrastructure customers and achieve cloud optimization.
are the RAID storage, virtualized machines, and the interface
capacity. These layers are physically systems partitioned as IV. DISCUSSION
logical units.
A. Cloud IaaS benefits
B. IaaS Network Cloud infrastructure has several benefits which includes
In IaaS infrastructure is assigned the private network of  Costs of building the new infrastructure resources will
user. As like Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) behaves reduce by using the shared application resources instead
every user has its own private separate network not only this of building a new infrastructure network.
you can develop your own private cloud that can be  Management of the single infrastructure is more easy and
virtualized. Rackspace cloud computing service also follows efficient than many individual network infrastructures.
the Amazon Web Service AWS in the IP assigning model –  To deploy the applications on cloud infrastructure is
[19]. shorter and easy.
 Cloud infrastructure development is easy to build your
C. Pods own private network in collectively you can use the cloud
Workloads support a specific number of the users. resources on the pay as you go basis and use as your own
When you reach the limit of the maximum number of virtual private cloud network.
machines you need to make a clone for the additional support
of the users. A group of them within a particular limit of a B. Cloud IaaS and 5G
cloud computing system is called a pod. The pods are The introduction of 5G in the mobile network enables
managed by the cloud computing control system (CCS). In various numbers of new services that provide shorter latency
AWS, the cloud control system is the AWS management and higher bandwidth in the network. Cloud-native
console that manages the Amazon cloud pods [21]. technologies and edge computing are the cloud infrastructure
in 5G [21]. Edge computing provides distributed cloud
D. Availability Zone. infrastructure resources close to new business opportunities.
As we discuss the pods which manage the cloud Cloud infrastructure is distributed close to the data traffic and
computing services. Pods also divided into pools within the consumed more efficient equipment installed.
IaaS region or site called the Availability zone. When a large
IaaS infrastructure network pods fail to manage these C. Cloud IaaS transformation philosophy
networks then the zones support the cloud infrastructure to In this age ultimately everyone needs cloud
maintain the network and provides the services. In the AWS infrastructure and the 5G accelerates [20]. It ensures the cloud
IaaS infrastructure, the availability zones organized over the computing service providers to the transformation of cloud
company’s data centers. infrastructure from the physical network to a cloud
environment. The main features of the cloud transformation
E. Silos philosophy includes System Verified, Optimized, Cloud
Silos are the cloud computing equivalent of the compute Native and Solution Life Cycle Management.
island which is the processing domains which are the outsides
of the network infrastructure. When we create a private V. CONCLUSION
network within the IaaS framework then the silos help. Silos
restrict the users within a certain infrastructure. Silos are Cloud computing IaaS gives an environment where the
responsible for the flexibility of the cloud computing system users can easily and securely build their applications and use
[19]. cloud computing services based on the user requirement. So
with this information, we understand what cloud computing
With the rapid growth of cloud computing, every IaaS is. In this paper, I analyze a brief introduction about the
organization wants its own private cloud infrastructure which cloud computing IaaS, its benefits, and different cloud IaaS
means we improve the cloud computing efficiency to keep providers that provide cloud computing services especially
maintain and fulfills the customer’s requirements. So, here cloud IaaS. Also, I learn what major areas are required for
are some major points which can improve cloud efficiency: more research on cloud computing IaaS and discuss the cloud
 Utilize WANOP and Load balancing computing IaaS components.
 Optimize your storage environment
 Converged Infrastructure Cloud computing is a different platform and have
 Software-defined technologies different security challenges because of its open source
 Optimize the end-user experience services which offers the researchers to more explore but I
 Modernized the end-point discuss an overview for our topic related things. As we all
 Monitor and monitor know that every technology has two affect one is the positive
 Create better security which leads the prosperity and the other is the negative in
 Invest in more virtualization form of the technology security and challenges. As the same
 Automation and orchestration cloud computing also face the various challenges related to its
security. But it is no doubt that the cloud computing is the

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