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AWS Cloud Computing Concepts and Tech Analogies

By : Ashish Prajapati, Juan Carlos Ruiz, Marco Tamassia
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AWS Cloud Computing Concepts and Tech Analogies

By: Ashish Prajapati, Juan Carlos Ruiz, Marco Tamassia

Overview of this book

This book makes understanding cloud computing easy by providing relatable examples that simplify the complex technology. By drawing parallels between cloud concepts and everyday scenarios, we will demystify cloud tech, and once you start to understand it, learning cloud computing will be more enjoyable. This book will help you learn about cloud computing in general and AWS specifically, as you follow the journey of TrendyCorp—a fictitious company gearing up to move from traditional IT to cloud computing. You’ll shape your understanding of the cloud through scenarios of interactions between TrendyCorp’s new hires, seasoned IT professionals, external consultants, and the board of directors engaged in modernizing their applications. These characters’ discussions and actions are focused on learning about cloud services by drawing comparisons between the technology and examples taken from real life. Through this book, you’ll realize that cloud computing concepts have more in common with your day-to-day scenarios and situations than you’ve ever imagined. This book offers a conversational and entertaining narrative that anyone working in IT and looking to understand how the cloud works will be able to follow. By the end of it, you’ll have developed a clear and simplified perspective of cloud technologies.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Cloud Infrastructure and Core Services
7
Part 2: Platform Services
12
Part 3: Application Services

Part 2: Platform Services

In this part, you will discover the most basic services in the cloud – the foundational ones that can be used to build upon, including virtual servers and their storage, networking, and databases. Security at all levels will also be introduced here. Related tasks such as monitoring and automation will also be covered. Finally, one analogy will describe the common terminology used in most of them.

These services and components will be likely understood by all audiences, as they have their equivalents in classical, on-premises systems.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 6, Databases – To SQL or Not To SQL for So Many Records…
  • Chapter 7, Identity and Access Management – Who Am I and What Can I Do?
  • Chapter 8, Monitoring – Is Big Brother Watching?
  • Chapter 9, Scalability – I Scale To the Moon and Back