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B. CampbellThe Definitive Guide to AWS Infrastructure Automation https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5398-4_1

1. Infra the Beginning

Bradley Campbell1 
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Virginia, VA, USA
 

Infrastructure: the word has this weight about it. Bridges, roads, racks, servers…. The word carries this connotation of tangibility – that if something is infrastructure, that there is something substantial, bulky, heavy, and real – not some ephemeral or abstract notion that can be destroyed or recreated at a moment’s notice. IT practitioners these days are thinking of infrastructure in much different terms than they were five years ago. In the mind of the cloud-enlightened IT pro, servers are now abstract units of raw computing power dynamically allocated ...

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