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Designing AWS Environments

You're reading from   Designing AWS Environments Architect large-scale cloud infrastructures with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789535549
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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AMIs

An AMI is an image of the filesystem for your boot volume. A base AMI contains an operating system. However, you can launch AMIs that have applications already installed and pre-configured.

These are available from the AWS marketplace or the AWS community, or you can launch custom AMIs that you configure for yourself.

Quick start

When you click on Quick Start, you will get the following screen:

You can select the Free tier only checkbox to filter the available AMIs.

These include Linux varieties such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and Amazon's own Linux variety, which is optimized to the AWS environment and most closely resembles Red Hat. You can also select the Windows Server operating system, some with SQL Server...

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