Summary

This chapter looked at the core concepts required to understand virtual machines across multiple cloud platforms. In this book, we will build an end-to-end solution using virtual machine architecture for each of the three hyperscalers: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The providers for each will manifest and exercise these concepts slightly differently. The resources will change, but the concepts as they manifest in our architecture will be relatively consistent.

In this chapter, I have gone over common concepts across cloud platforms that are necessary to understand in order to automate solutions. These include cloud networking concepts like virtual networks, subnets, peering, and service endpoints, which are essential for creating and managing isolated network environments and ensuring efficient communication between resources. We also explored computing concepts such as virtual NICs for network connectivity and virtual disks for scalable storage solutions.

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