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 and 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 also 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.
When working with AWS, we learned a few basic concepts about EC2 resources. Next, we looked at typical cloud management tasks, such as launching and managing instances...
