Automated infrastructure management capabilities
Level 2: Elastic Provisioning
Automatic matching between the resource needs (including current and projected requirements) and a physical server
Provisioning carried out by non-system administrators (such as the development team)
E.g. Amazon EC2
Level 3 – Elastic Operations
Auomated monitoring of usage profile of running VMs with the capability to automatically migrate running VMs to different virtual machines or provision new VMs
Partially available in Amazon EC2 (new provisioning – no migration supported)