October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
17h 33m
English
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Chapter 1. What is Amazon Web Services?
This chapter covers
- Overview of Amazon Web Services
- The benefits of using Amazon Web Services
- What you can do with Amazon Web Services
- Creating and setting up an AWS account
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform of web services that offers solutions for computing, storing, and networking, at different layers of abstraction. For example, you can use block-level storage (a low level of abstraction) or a highly distributed object storage (a high level of abstraction) to store your data. You can use these services to host websites, run enterprise applications, and mine tremendous amounts of data. Web services are accessible via the internet by using typical web protocols (such as HTTP) and used by machines ...