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Distributed Computing in Java 9

You're reading from   Distributed Computing in Java 9 Leverage the latest features of Java 9 for distributed computing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126992
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raja Malleswara Rao Malleswara Rao Pattamsetti Raja Malleswara Rao Malleswara Rao Pattamsetti
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Preface 1. Quick Start to Distributed Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Communication between Distributed Applications 3. RMI, CORBA, and JavaSpaces 4. Enterprise Messaging 5. HPC Cluster Computing 6. Distributed Databases 7. Cloud and Distributed Computing 8. Big Data Analytics 9. Testing, Debugging, and Troubleshooting 10. Security

AWS


AWS is a broader group of network-based services offered by Amazon. The following are the services it offers:

  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon SQS
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Amazon SimpleDB

While there are a number of service offerings provided by Amazon, Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 are two important innovations in terms of transaction handling.

The following diagram depicts the AWS architecture with development and application hosting:

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 is the most important feature of Amazon cloud services. It works based on a web services API for establishing, managing, and demolishing the virtual servers that reside in the Amazon cloud. This gives applications that are deployed and accessible through the internet the ability to launch the virtual server present in the Amazon cloud environment using a single web service invocation. The servers in Amazon EC2 cloud environments run based on a tailored version of the open source Xen hypervisor along with paravirtualization. This provides the ability to dynamically...

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