Chapter 13: Deploying to the Cloud with AWS and Azure

Recent years have seen a significant shift from on-premises computing platforms to private and public clouds. In an ever-changing and accelerating world, deploying and running applications in a highly scalable, efficient, and secure infrastructure is critical for businesses and organizations everywhere. On the other hand, the cost and expertise required to maintain the equivalent level of security and performance with on-premises computing resources become barely justifiable compared to current public cloud offerings. Businesses and teams, small and large, are adopting public cloud services in increasing numbers, albeit large enterprises are relatively slow to make a move.

One of the best metaphors for cloud computing is application services on tap. Do you need more resources for your apps? Just turn on the tap and provision the virtual machines or instances in any number you need (scale horizontally). Or perhaps, for some instances...