Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing model providing virtualized resources over the internet, allowing users to manage storage, networking, and compute resources. It offers significant cost savings and flexibility compared to on-premises solutions, with potential reductions in expenses by up to 82% through reserved instances and efficient resource management. Tools like Azure Cost Management and Cloudyn can assist in optimizing these costs, as demonstrated by Ticketmaster's improvements in budget forecasting.

1. Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
is a cloud computing service
model that provides virtualized
computing resources over the
internet.

2. What is IaaS made of?
storage
hardware
network compute

3. Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Applications
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Applications
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
On-Premises IaaS
You Manage Other Manages

4. SaaS PaaS
You Manage Other Manages
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Applications
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Applications
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking

5. Cloud Base
On-Premises
High Hardware Cost
Medium backup Cost
High Maintenance Cost Security Compliances
Backup & Recovery Cost
LoW Hardware Cost
On-Premises VS Cloud Base

6. laaS Benefits
Cost savings
20% 50%
Time saving
99%
Improved security High Availability
99%
Scalability
90%

7. Azure Cost Management
and Cloudyn are available
tools to assist in ongoing
cost controls. Ticketmaster
used Cloudyn to improve
budget variance and
inventory forecasting
improved by 42-64%.
Microsoft estimates that on-premises servers are
underutilized, and that rightsizing the machine can
save as much as 70%
There are two ways to pay
for VMs: As-you-go or with
Reserved Instances
(prepaid commitments).
Once a
deployment scales beyond
a pilot, Reserved Instances
can save 72% over pay-as-
you-go.
Billing by the minute, not the ho
shave 5-10%.
Auto-shutting down development or other
non-production servers on the weekend (up to 38%
savings), or on the weeknights too (saving up to 60%)
Combined with reserved instances, Hybrid Use Rights
can provide 82% lower costs than pay-as-you go. SQL
licenses that are owned can be transferred as well
5%
60%
64%
70%
72%
82%

8. Schedule a consultation with our
experts to discuss your unique
requirements and how Gart can
be integrated into your existing
infrastructure.
Roman Burdiuzha
Cloud Architect Co-Founder
& CTO at Gart