Chapter 3
The Realities and Opportunities of Cloud-Based Compute Services That Your Cloud Provider Will Not Tell You About
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
— Colin Powell
Now that we’ve covered storage, let’s cover compute. This topic is a bit more complex. In addition to choosing public cloud computing processors, which are usually referred to as central processing units (CPUs), we must pick the platforms needed to operate those processors. The platforms themselves require choices, including operating systems, memory configurations, network connections, and even the need to define some physical storage that needs to exist.
In this chapter, we focus on what these services ...
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