Infrastructure as Service

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-014321",
  "term": "Infrastructure as Service",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly application hosting environment configurations.",
  "references": [
    "NIST Definition of Cloud Computing Special Publication 800-145"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/infrastructure-as-service/"
}