You're reading from AWS Cloud Computing Concepts and Tech Analogies A guide to understand AWS services using easy-to-follow analogies from real life

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804611425

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Marco Tamassia

Ashish Prajapati

Juan Carlos Ruiz

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Cloud Infrastructure and Core Services

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Computing – Demystifying the Cloud FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Global Infrastructure behind Cloud Platforms – What Is the Cloud Made of?

4. Chapter 3: Computing – In Cloud We Trust, Everything Else We Compute

5. Chapter 4: Storage – Where Should I Keep My Data and Maybe Publish It?

6. Chapter 5: Networking – So, How Do I Get Inside, Outside, and Across the Cloud?

7. Part 2: Platform Services

8. Chapter 6: Databases – To SQL or Not to SQL for So Many Records…

9. Chapter 7: Identity and Access Management – Who Am I and What Can I Do?

10. Chapter 8: Monitoring – Is Big Brother Watching?

11. Chapter 9: Scalability – I Scale to the Moon and Back

12. Part 3: Application Services

13. Chapter 10: Automation – Look, My Infrastructure Is in Code!

14. Chapter 11: Decoupled Architectures – in Space and Time

15. Chapter 12: Containers – Contain Yourself and Ship Some Containers

16. Chapter 13: Serverless – So, Where Are My Servers?

17. Chapter 14: Caching – Microseconds Latency: Why Are We Always in a Rush?

18. Chapter 15: Blockchain – Who Watches the Watchmen?

19. Chapter 16: What the Future Holds

20. Index

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Distinguishing between the available options

After the break, Raj and Alex return to the meeting room and find Berta poring over the AWS webpage. Alex springs into action mode.

Alex: Okay, folks – how do we start with the virtual servers we need to create?

Berta: Well, I can see from the AWS documentation that there are many options available; I would suggest learning about them in advance, documenting what we need, and then trying to create these servers based on what we have learned. What do you think?

Alex: It works for me.

Raj: Same for me.

Berta: If it’s okay with you, I’ll quickly recap what the key points I’ve learned so far are. First of all, Amazon EC2 supports several operating systems, such as the latest versions of Microsoft Windows Server and the most popular Linux distributions, and they recently announced support...

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