How do we define an infrastructure as a service provider? It's a business that provides the foundational platform for what we know as private cloud or public cloud hosting. If your services do not extend beyond providing rack space, hardware, and virtual machine rental, you are an infrastructure as a service provider.

As for the Microsoft licenses, a pure infrastructure-as-a-service provider doesn't provide anything except the operating system, Windows Server.

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