Chapter 2. The 10-minute EC2 web server
Here’s where the real work of the book starts. So, technically speaking, now would be a good time to talk about whether AWS is right for you in the first place. In fact, AWS has a great tool called the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator (http://awstcocalculator.com) that lets you make apples-to-apples cost comparisons between your existing physical or locally hosted deployment and similar infrastructure running on the AWS cloud. But if we got into that discussion, this 10-minute EC2 web server would stretch out to at least a half an hour. Can’t have that, can we?
So I pushed the TCO Calculator back to chapter 9; feel free to jump ahead if you like. The rest of us will fearlessly dive right in and ...
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