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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

Amazon RDS

RDS is a fully managed relational database service provided by Amazon in the cloud. With RDS, AWS provides a few popular relational database management systems as a service, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB.

Amazon RDS is a managed service. There are different ways to create a database, such as MySQL, in the cloud. One is provisioning an EC2 instance and installing a database management system (DBMS) on the instance, and then creating databases, tables, and so on. This is an unmanaged approach since you will have to take care of all the administrative tasks such as database scaling, high availability, disaster recovery, and so on. Another is using cloud-managed services to provision a database where AWS will handle the mundane and time-consuming tasks such as hardware provisioning, software installation, backup and recovery, patching, scaling, and so on. Managed services allow users to focus on their applications and data without worrying about...