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AWS Cloud Computing Concepts and Tech Analogies

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611425
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Tamassia Marco Tamassia
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Ashish Prajapati Ashish Prajapati
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Juan Carlos Ruiz Juan Carlos Ruiz
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scalability – I Scale to the Moon and Back

The team is feeling more confident as they are progressing steadily with their understanding of the cloud. With monitoring in place, they get lots of data related to the performance, security, and utilization of the system. This data can also help them in planning for future workloads or defining a workload characteristic. Another important question they have in mind is whether to use the flexibility of the cloud infrastructure to handle variable traffic and to design scalable architectures.

Berta enters the office and finds that Alex is already there.

Berta: Good morning, Alex. Looks like you have come in early today.

Alex: Well, yes, relatively early. I was trying to buy a product from an online flash sale, but I could not complete the purchase. The whole process seems very slow; I thought it was because of my home network, but it is the same in the office too.

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