Infrastructure Provider

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An Infrastructure Provider is a Provider that supplies or operates computing, storage, networking, virtualization, facility, or related foundational resources.

The Infrastructure Provider may expose physical resources, virtual resources, cloud services, managed infrastructure, or combinations of those resources.

An Infrastructure Provider may also provide identity, monitoring, security, lifecycle management, support, and service-level capabilities associated with the supplied infrastructure.

A Cloud Provider is a specialized Infrastructure Provider when it supplies infrastructure through remotely accessible, service-managed cloud capabilities.

provider that supplies or operates computing, storage, networking, virtualization, facility, or related foundational resources

Generalized from infrastructure management, cloud computing, data-center operations, outsourcing, and service-provider usage and specialized for the Crucible architecture and operational model.

An Infrastructure Provider may be internal or external to the organization using the infrastructure.

The Infrastructure Provider role does not by itself identify ownership of the workload, application, data, or deployed environment.

An enterprise infrastructure team operates private compute clusters, storage systems, networks, and virtualization services for internal product teams. The enterprise infrastructure team acts as the Infrastructure Provider.