The cloud infrastructure is a collection of hardware and software, which includes servers, hypervisors, networks, storage devices, deployment software, platform virtualization and management software.
Hypervisor: Hypervisor is software that creates and runs virtual machines. It is also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM). The hypervisor allows the host machine to share a single physical instance of cloud resources among multiple clients.
Server: A server is a system that provides resource allocation and de-allocation, data, security, programs, monitoring of resources, and services to other computers, known as clients. It plays a vital role in IT infrastructure.
Network: The network plays an important role in cloud computing. It provides a means to connect cloud services over the internet. We can also deliver the network as a utility over the internet, as per the business requirement.
Storage: In a cloud environment, there are multiple replicas of storage. If one of the storage gets failed, then the data can be easily extracted from another location, which makes the cloud environment more reliable.
Management Software: Management Software helps to maintain and configure the infrastructure of the cloud environment.
Deployment Software: Deployment Software helps to integrate and deploy the software or applications in the cloud environment.