Virtualization & Cloud Models: The Missing Bridge 🌉

Short summary

Virtualization—dividing physical servers into virtual machines—is the foundation enabling cloud computing at scale. AWS uses Type 1 hypervisors on bare-metal hardware to manage massive pools of VMs available on-demand. The article explains IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models, clarifying how much infrastructure responsibility you take on at each level.

• •Virtualization uses hypervisors to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, eliminating wasted capacity
• •AWS cloud computing is virtualization at massive scale, using Type 1 bare-metal hypervisors in data centers
• •IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS represent increasing levels of managed services, trading control for convenience

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