Infrastructure as a service—also known as cloud infrastructure services—refers to a business model where cloud providers host space on their servers for others to store core computing, networking, and other resources. With IaaS, businesses and individual users rent infrastructure for their apps and operating systems on demand. For organizations that need to scale, IaaS provides a viable alternative to investing in traditional owned infrastructure. It’s an approach that can help businesses lighten the demands on their on-prem resources and effectively process workloads—all while avoiding the maintenance and operational costs of running these servers themselves. In this post, we’ll explore how IaaS works and what it offers. We’ll also provide some infrastructure as a service examples and outline how you can follow identity standards when using IaaS. What is IaaS made of? IaaS is made up of physical and digital resources that provide users with the fundamentals they need to run.