Other cloud providers
Up until now, we have focused on AWS as a cloud provider. Of course, there are other providers that offer similar services, the two biggest being the Microsoft Azure Cloud and the Google Cloud Platform. Besides these, there are many other providers that also offer IaaS solutions, more often than not based on the open source platform OpenStack.
All cloud providers employ similar concepts, so if you have experience with one of them, you will probably find your way around others. For this reason, we decided not to cover each of them in depth within this book, but instead focus on AWS and give you a short outlook on other providers and how they are different.
Microsoft Azure
You can sign up for the Azure cloud on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/. Like AWS, Azure offers multiple regions and availability zones in which you can run your services. Also, most of the Azure core services work similar to AWS, although they often are named differently:
- The service managing virtual...