Gartner defines infrastructure automation and orchestration (IA&O) tools that enable I&O teams to design and implement a broad range of reusable infrastructure services, building foundations for infrastructure platform engineering (IPE) capabilities. These services include automated infrastructure delivery and operations across a hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises, edge, public and private cloud topologies. These services are focused on democratizing access to infrastructure services, improving operational efficiency, quality, policy compliance, risk mitigation, cost and process optimization. IA&O tools provide platform consumers with on-demand, self-service access to standardized infrastructure products either by API or console.