This amounts to about $306 per month using conventional infrastructure, or about $153 per month per server. You can go shopping for public cloud IaaS VM providers knowing what the relative costs are to do-it-yourself.

Is IaaS cost effective?

IaaS is a cost effective solution as it enables organisations to rent IT infrastructure on a month by month basis, giving them access to the very latest, best of breed products without having to succumb to upfront capital expenditure (CapEx).

How are IaaS consumers charged?

In general, IaaS customers pay on a per-user basis, typically by the hour, week or month. Some IaaS providers also charge customers based on the amount of virtual machine space they use. This pay-as-you-go model eliminates the capital expense of deploying in-house hardware and software.