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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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In this lesson, we're going to talk about Amazon Web Services, or AWS. Now, when we talk about these three major cloud providers, Amazon, Azure, which is Microsoft, or Google GCP, all of these different cloud components and providers were built on a set of specific guidelines made to deliver services to customers. And if you think about it, the cloud is just another network, right? It's just it has more tools from an automation perspective. It has a GUI for self-provisioning. It has a whole bunch of different things and different ways to interact with it. But it still has the same fundamental concepts of a network, storage, compute, et cetera, et cetera. So let's talk about what AWS has to offer. From a compute perspective, there's something called Amazon EC2, or an Elastic Compute Cloud. Really, what this is, is this is the concept of being able to have virtual servers to run applications that you want to run in the cloud instead of having to host them on-prem in your own…

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