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AWS Cloud Computing Concepts and Tech Analogies

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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804611425

Pages 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Ashish Prajapati

Juan Carlos Ruiz

Marco Tamassia

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Cloud Infrastructure and Core Services

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Computing – Demystifying the Cloud

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

Why subscribe?

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Further reading

Blockchain on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/
Amazon Managed Blockchain: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/
Amazon QLDB: https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/
PartiQL: https://partiql.org/
PartiQL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-partiql-one-query-language-for-all-your-data/
Amazon QLDB PartiQL reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/ql-reference.html

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Authors (3)

Ashish Prajapati

Ashish Prajapati is a technical professional currently based in London, UK. He is passionate about helping individuals and enterprises in learning Cloud skills in an easy and fun way. His deep background as a virtualization and cloud migration expert allows him to leverage his field knowledge into the classroom by bringing real world examples to learners. His work has helped many cloud enthusiasts get started with the cloud, learn the fundamentals, and achieve cloud certifications. With some of the Amazonian's help, he also runs a free program called “BeSA - Become a Solutions Architect” to help individuals learn the technical and behavioral skills required for a successful solutions architect.

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Juan Carlos Ruiz

Juan Carlos Ruiz is a technical instructor based in Barcelona, Spain. He has been working in the IT industry for a long time, in top companies such as DEC, Compaq, Microsoft and AWS, in multiple roles as Tech Support, Development, Operations, and especially Training. He currently delivers a wide range of technical courses to AWS customers across EMEA. He's especially a great fan of two activities. The first one is Teaching, making sure students get the basic concepts and relationships. The second one is Automation (making IT work for humans, and not the opposite). Author of a myriad of automation projects.

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Marco Tamassia

Marco Tamassia is a senior technical trainer based in Milano, Italy. He delivers a wide range of technical training to AWS customers across Europe and the Middle East (EMEA). Marco also has a deep background as a Database Administrator (DBA) for companies of all sizes (including AWS) and this allows him to bring his database knowledge into classrooms bringing real world examples to his students. Lastly, Marco is a senior public speaker certified in AWS: he regularly delivers internal public speaking sessions applied to technical contexts.

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