CHAPTER ONEGetting Started with Cloud Concepts
Welcome to Chapter 1. In this chapter, you learn what Cloud computing can offer your business. Specifically, this chapter covers the following topics:
- Benefits of Cloud computing
- AWS Cloud economics
- The total cost of ownership
- Reducing costs by moving to the Cloud
- Cloud architecture design principles
- The Well-Architected Framework
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to define the Cloud and describe its many uses. Let's get started!
What Is Cloud Computing?
Imagine you're planning a wonderful camping trip with your friends. You're into the concept of “roughing it,” but you have your limits! Do you really need to sew your own sleeping bags, craft your own tents, drag some rocks around to make a fire pit, and rub two sticks together to make a campfire? Probably not! Instead, you might take a trip to your local camping supply store and buy a pup tent kit, a mess kit, and one of those cool camp cook stoves with a little butane fuel container. Once you're geared up, you can free your attention to enjoying the great outdoors in the company of your friends!
Cloud computing is a little like that visit to the store to source your gear, rather than building it all yourself. Instead of managing your own servers in your own office, you can use the Cloud, which is a set of services available to you to conduct your business's ...