City IT still patches the guest operating system on Azure virtual machines every month. What does that ongoing duty indicate about the service type?
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Short Explanation
If your team is still patch Tuesday on the guest OS, you are living in IaaS land. On VMs, that OS duty stays with the customer. SaaS would not hand you the guest OS to patch.
Full Explanation
In the shared responsibility model for IaaS, customers manage the guest operating system and applications on virtual machines, while the provider manages the underlying infrastructure. Ongoing guest OS patching therefore signals IaaS, not SaaS. It does not mean the customer purchased physical hardware from the provider.