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The Illustrated AWS Cloud
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The Illustrated AWS Cloud

by Jen Looper, Denise Yu
December 2023
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
192 pages
3h 20m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER FOURCamping in the Cloud

Welcome to Chapter 4. In this chapter, we dig into some of the most interesting services you can use to build your services in AWS Cloud. Specifically, we cover the following:

  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Networking
  • Databases
  • Machine learning

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to differentiate between important services and understand how to use them to build your business. Let's go!

Introduction

It's time! Up to now, you've been learning about all of the interesting topics focused on preparing to build or migrate your workflows into the Cloud. But now it's time to really jump in the deep end and start considering some of the most important services that AWS offers to help you manage your Cloud infrastructure and your data in the Cloud. This chapter discusses five big categories of services: compute, storage, networking, databases, and machine learning. Then you take a tour of the ways that you can get help setting them up and managing them.

A cartoon illustration of the few people walking in the dessert.

Compute

In the context of the Cloud, the term compute is a general term referring to the software, hardware, resources, and objects necessary for the “computational success” of a computer program. A good explanation is here: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/compute. In this section, we focus on some important services that help get you up and running in the AWS Cloud.

Compute Families

One of the most ...

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