What Is Infrastructure as a Service?

Three profiles get the highest return from IaaS. The first is SMEs facing a hardware refresh: customers who move their workloads to IaaS instead of renewing a server fleet that has reached 5 years of age measure an average 35-45% saving in total cost of ownership in the first year. The second is workloads with uneven demand: for e-commerce campaigns, period-end ERP loads and seasonal traffic, resources can be scaled up and down by the hour. The third is regulated organizations: the data residency requirements of KVKK (Türkiye's personal data protection law), BDDK (Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency) rules and healthcare legislation require data to be kept in Türkiye, in a facility that can be audited — at DataKobi, on-site audits are available by contract.

We should also say where IaaS is not the right choice: for monolithic workloads that consume constant, very high computing power around the clock (for example render farms running at full capacity continuously), physical servers can remain more economical in the long run. In the discovery meeting we run this calculation with you using open data.

Three concrete differences: data residency, latency and bill predictability. Your data stays in our facilities in Türkiye; users within Türkiye reach the server in under 8 milliseconds (the typical figure for the Frankfurt region is 40-70 ms). There are no data egress fees, extra IOPS charges or exchange-rate surprises on the invoice — you get a fixed monthly price in TL. On the support side, you reach our engineering team in Ankara by phone rather than through a portal; our first-response target for critical requests is 15 minutes.