Chapter 2
The Realities and Opportunities of Cloud-Based Storage Services That Your Cloud Provider Will Not Tell You About
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
— Paul Tournier
In this chapter, we take on the pragmatic use of cloud computing resources. We focus first on storage and then move on to compute in the next chapter.
We also cover the more modern offerings such as serverless, AI, and so forth later in this book. However, we don’t focus on the use and definitions of these cloud computing services; there are plenty of places you can go to figure that out. Instead, we look at how to effectively use these services to solve real business problems.
We also discuss some of the confusion around cloud services, some of it caused by the ...
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