Chapter 4
Amazon Web Services
IN THIS CHAPTER
Looking at AWS cloud service offerings
Signing up for an AWS account
Creating a virtual machine in AWS
Managing an AWS virtual machine instance
Connecting to an AWS virtual machine instance
Like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing service that includes numerous ways to virtualize your IT infrastructure in the cloud. AWS is the grandfather of cloud-based infrastructure providers — it got its start way back in 2002. Since then, AWS has developed into the largest cloud provider in the world. Amazon’s online retail space itself is hosted on AWS, as are many other familiar services, including Netflix, Hulu, and Ancestry.com.
AWS provides services that span the full range of cloud-based services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). In this chapter, I give you a brief look at the range of cloud services that AWS provides. Then you’ll learn how ...
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