ANTICIPATED DEVELOPMENTS IN CLOUD SERVICES WITH A FOCUS ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-SERVICE (IaaS) MODEL

Dimitar Jakovleski

Dimitar Jakovleski Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Rugjer Bošković bb, P.O.Box 574, 1001 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia

Keywords: cloud Services, cloud service models, IaaS, cloud resources, ML/AI

Abstract

Delivery of fundamental processing, network and storage resources to users has never been easier
through IaaS, a cloud computing model that utilizes the internet in order to provide users with scalable infrastructure
on-demand. However, the technology is constantly being developed in order to provide better QoS to the end consum-
ers, so efforts are being made to optimize every part of the IaaS model to make it function even better. This paper
provides an explanation of cloud services, cloud service models with special attention to the IaaS model, as well as
predicting future areas of research and development in the IaaS model, namely, eliminating interruptions in services,
resource management, security, Serverless Computing, Edge Computing and containerization. Ways to implement
ML/AI algorithms for resource allocation, containerization, security and predictive maintenance are also discussed. At
the end of the paper, a review is given of the business aspects of IaaS.