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The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

By : Dr. Logan Song
Book Image

The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

By: Dr. Logan Song

Overview of this book

The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer is a comprehensive guide to mastering cloud computing concepts by building a broad and deep cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud skills, and achieving professional cloud certifications. Even if you’re a beginner with a basic understanding of computer hardware and software, this book serves as the means to transition into a cloud computing career. Starting with the Amazon cloud, you’ll explore the fundamental AWS cloud services, then progress to advanced AWS cloud services in the domains of data, machine learning, and security. Next, you’ll build proficiency in Microsoft Azure Cloud and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by examining the common attributes of the three clouds while distinguishing their unique features. You’ll further enhance your skills through practical experience on these platforms with real-life cloud project implementations. Finally, you’ll find expert guidance on cloud certifications and career development. By the end of this cloud computing book, you’ll have become a cloud-savvy professional well-versed in AWS, Azure, and GCP, ready to pursue cloud certifications to validate your skills.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Learning about the Amazon Cloud
9
Part 2:Comprehending GCP Cloud Services
14
Part 3:Mastering Azure Cloud Services
19
Part 4:Developing a Successful Cloud Career

Understanding S3

As we have discussed, Amazon EBS is block storage that can be attached to an EC2 instance. Amazon EFS is an elastic filesystem storage that can be shared among EC2 instances. Now, we will examine Amazon’s object storage: S3.

S3 is object-based storage and is a public end point accessible globally via the web and other means. In S3, objects or files are stored in a bucket (folder). S3 is a universal namespace storage, which means the names must be unique globally. While there is unlimited storage for S3 customers, each object or file is limited to 0 TB to 5 TB in size.

Amazon S3 offers a range of object-level storage classes that are designed for different use cases:

  • S3 Standard, with 4x9 (99.99%) availability and durability.
  • S3 Standard-Infrequent (Standard-IA), with 3x9 (99.9%) availability and 11x9 durability.
  • S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage with 3x9 availability and 4x9 durability.
  • S3 Intelligent-Tiering, which places the objects...