Summary

AWS and Azure provide a roughly similar set of features for flexible compute capacity, storage, and networking, with pay-as-you-go pricing. They share the essential elements of a public cloud – elasticity, autoscaling, provisioning with self-service, security, and identity access management. This chapter explored both cloud providers strictly from a practical vantage point, focusing on typical deployment and management aspects of everyday cloud administration tasks.

We covered topics such as launching and terminating a new instance or virtual machine. We looked at resizing an instance to accommodate a higher or lower compute capacity and scaling the storage by creating and attaching additional block devices (volumes). Finally, we used CLI tools for scripting various cloud management workloads.

At this point, you should be familiar with the AWS and Azure web administration consoles and CLI tools. You have learned the basics of some typical cloud management tasks...