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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. In an IaaS model, a cloud provider hosts the infrastructure components traditionally present in an on-premises data center, including servers, storage, and networking hardware, as well as the virtualization or hypervisor layer. The IaaS provider also offers a range of services to accompany those infrastructure components.

The top companies in this space are: