Lesson 19: Cloud Infrastructure
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Overview
- What the Cloud Looks Like
- Advantages over Bare Hardware
- Private Clouds
- Public Clouds
- Cloud + Configuration Management
- Advantages and Disadvantages
What the Cloud Looks Like
[...] a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.
Advantages over Bare Hardware
Private Clouds
Public Clouds
Cloud + Configuration Management
Advantages
Running your software on a cloud is:
- Ephemeral
- Cost effective
- Low startup cost
Disadvantages
Clouds can be great tools, but they have some disadvantages:
- Central Point of Failure
TODO
Further Reading
AWS provides a lot of services, not all of which are named very well. This article explains what each service does in plain English.