Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

The cloud is where much of the serious technology innovation and growth happens these days, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), more than any other, is the platform of choice for business and institutional workloads. This chapter explores what makes cloud computing different from other applications and client‐server model. The technology that lies at the core of all cloud operations is virtualization. Keeping up with the steady stream of new services showing up on the AWS Console can be frustrating. But solutions architect should focus on the core service categories. The chapter briefly summarizes each of the core categories and then does the same for key individual services. It also explores how AWS provides such a high level of service reliability and compliance and explains how to access and manage solutions architect's AWS‐based resources.