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Dropbox, Gmail, and Facebook, which have been built atop it. The rest of the

cake exists largely to support Web applications like these and their

developers. Let’s slice it open (see Figure 22-28) and start at the bottom.

Figure 22-28 A tasty three-layer cake

Infrastructure as a Service

Building on the ways virtualization allowed Mario to make the most efficient

use of hardware in his local network, large-scale global Infrastructure as a

Service (IaaS) providers use virtualization to minimize idle hardware, protect

against data loss and downtime, and respond to spikes in demand. Mario can

use big IaaS providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch new

virtual servers using an operating system of his choice on demand (see Figure

22-29) for pennies an hour. The beauty of IaaS is that you no longer need to

purchase expensive, heavy hardware. You are using Amazon’s powerful

infrastructure as a service.

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