July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
Cloud infrastructure providers, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, offer services for things such as message queues, big data storage, and machine learning processing. The services handle the underlying resource needs such as server, storage provisioning, and also network requirements. You do not have to worry about how this happens under the hood, and it scales as big as you need it.
Cloud providers also manage global distribution of services to ensure low latency. The following image shows the AWS regional data center locations combined with underwater internet cabling:
