Questions tagged [iaas]

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing model that provides infrastructure-level resources (e.g. servers, storage, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, IP addresses, VLANs) on demand. Contrast with the [paas] and [saas] tags.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), in contrast with traditional procurement models, provides infrastructure-level resources on a subscription basis through the . This allows network and computing resources to be quickly deployed and dynamically scaled on demand.

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How come, when utilizing a CDN, some hosting providers require to point nameservers to those of the CDN and some don't?

When I had an IaaS modeled hosting environment I wanted to utilize a CDN (CloudFlare) and I was required by the hosting company staff to point the name servers in my domain registrar to those of CloudFlare (instead to those of the hosting…
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Is there a use case for not employing Elastic Beanstalk?

Being fairly new to the AWS ecosystem, is there any reason I wouldn't want to use Elastic Beanstalk for my python+django+yeoman web app (still being prototyped, but want to be ready to scale quickly as soon as it's released)?
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