In this chapter, you will learn the fundamentals of cloud computing and get an overview of select products from Amazon Web Services. AWS offers a free tier where a new user can access many of the services free for a year, and this will make almost all examples here close to free for you to try out. Our goal is that by the end of this chapter, you will be comfortable enough with AWS to perform almost all the analysis in the rest of the book on the AWS cloud itself instead of locally.
However, if you plan to work through ...
