Chapter 7: AWS Compute Services
In the old days, traditional on-premises environments consisted of a wide range of servers that used to host a varied gamut of applications, websites, and other services. These servers were physical hardware such as your home desktop computer but were designed with more robust components (such as CPU, memory and storage) to host applications for end user consumption.
A server is a term given to an application running on computer hardware that grants access to a set of services, either to other applications or end users. A physical computer can host more than one "server" offering – for example, a computer may offer email services and web services on the same physical hardware.
However, traditionally, you were limited in the number of servers you could configure your physical computer to host. This was primarily because of limited memory, storage, and, more importantly, the fact that applications would conflict with one another...