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Service models

Service models

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Service models

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- [Instructor] The basis for your service model selections should be employee skillsets and supporting training budgets. The first of these, infrastructure as a service, in which the customer can provision equipment as a service to support operations, including storage, hardware servers, and relevant networking components. Characteristics of this model are metered usage and pricing on the basis of units or instances consumed, an ability to scale infrastructure services up and down based on usage, reduced cost of ownership, and reduced energy and cooling costs. For IAAS, key security threats include: Attacks against the virtual infrastructure, which includes virtual machine attacks, virtual network, virtual switch attacks, and hypervisor attacks. Denial-of-service attacks on the virtual environment, which forms a critical threat to virtual machines along with all other dependent and associated services. Multi-tenancy by…

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