IaaS Explained: A Hands-On Case Study with AWS EC2

Tags: cloud, aws, devops, beginners

If you've ever wondered where a website actually lives , the short answer is: on someone's computer. Not long ago, that meant your own. Companies bought servers, found room for them, and waited weeks for the hardware to show up before they could launch anything. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) flipped that. You rent the machines over the internet, pay for what you use, and get on with building.

I wanted to understand IaaS properly, not just recite the definition, so I used Amazon EC2 as my example.…