Question 5
A startup rents a virtual machine with 2 CPU cores and 8 GB RAM from AWS and installs its own web server and database. This is an example of:
Bare-metal server
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Software as a Service
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Infrastructure as a Service
Question 5 of 25 in the IIT Madras BS Software Engineering (Software Engineering) End Term paper sat on 10 May 2026, in the January 2026 term (Software Engineering 06 May 26). It carries 4 marks.
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