Infrastructure Resource

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An Infrastructure Resource is a resource that supplies computing, storage, networking, security, identity, management, or related capabilities within an Infrastructure Environment.

Infrastructure Resources may include:

• Physical computing resources
• Virtual computing resources
• Storage resources
• Network resources
• Identity resources
• Security resources
• Load-balancing resources
• Monitoring resources
• Logging resources
• Name-resolution resources
• Key-management resources
• Provider-managed services

An Infrastructure Resource may be:

• Created
• Configured
• Allocated
• Associated with other resources
• Updated
• Replaced
• Released
• Transferred
• Retired

An Infrastructure Resource differs from an Infrastructure Configuration:

• An Infrastructure Resource supplies an infrastructure capability
• An Infrastructure Configuration specifies the desired state of Infrastructure Resources and their relationships

An Infrastructure Resource may be physical, virtual, logical, or provider-managed.

resource that supplies computing, storage, networking, security, identity, management, or related capability within an Infrastructure Environment

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An Infrastructure Resource does not by itself establish that the resource is:

• Configured correctly
• Authorized for use
• Compliant with an applicable Baseline
• Available
• Secure
• Suitable for a specified purpose

Separate requirements govern those determinations.

The term does not prescribe a particular provider, resource model, deployment technology, management interface, or implementation platform.

A virtual network, compute instance, storage volume, identity role, and logging service are Infrastructure Resources within a production Infrastructure Environment.