Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

As the Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS ) in a practical application example, The New York Times using the hundreds and thousands of Amazon EC2 instance process within 36 hours of class TB document data. If no EC2, The New York Times processing these data will take days or months.

At the same time, Iaas also has security flaws, such as service providers is a shared infrastructure, that is to say some components, such as CPU cache, GPU for the user of the system is not a completely isolated, it will produce a result, i.e. when an attacker to succeed, all servers to the attackers opened the door, even when using hypervisor, some client operating system can also obtain the basic platform of uncontrolled access. Solution: the development of a powerful partition and defense strategy, IaaS suppliers must monitor environment if unauthorized modification and activity.