Infrastructure compute

Infrastructure compute is processing power packaged as a provisionable resource that can be allocated, scheduled, and billed, alongside storage and networking.

Infrastructure takes raw compute and turns it into a resource that an operator can allocate, schedule, and bill. The question at this level is where the work runs and how much capacity exists. The units are virtual machines, bare-metal servers, containers, and nodes, and their size is stated in vCPUs and GiB of memory. The consumers are platform teams, operations teams, applications, and services.