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Cloud computing is one of the major trends in computing today and has been for many years. Public cloud providers have transformed the start-up industry and what it means to launch a service from scratch. We no longer need to build our own infrastructure; we can pay public cloud providers to rent a portion of their resources for our infrastructure needs. Nowadays, walking around any technology conferences or meetups, we will be hard-pressed to find someone who has not learned about, used, or built services based in the cloud. Cloud computing is here, and we better get used to working with it.

There are several cloud computing service models, roughly divided into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Platform_as_a_service_(PaaS)), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service...