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O. MustafaA Complete Guide to DevOps with AWShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9303-4_1

1. Overview of Amazon Web Services

Osama Mustafa1  
(1)
Amman, Jordan
 

With today’s technological boom, the demand for cloud computing services is increasing day by day. Individuals, companies, and multinational businesses are shifting from self-owned web services to cloud services. Among cloud services providers, the most prominent are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM, and Oracle Cloud.

In this chapter, we’ll take a look at cloud services in general and then focus our attention on AWS specifically.

Cloud Services at a Glance

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