Cloud computing enables you to stop thinking of your infrastructure as hardware, and instead think of and use it as software.
Benefits of cloud computing
- Trade capital expense for variable expense
- Benefit from massive economies of scale
- Stop guessing about capacity
- Increase speed and agility
- Focus on what matters
- Go global in minutes
3 models
- Cloud
- Hybrid
- On-premises (private cloud)
AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-based products.
AWS provides you with on-demand access to compute, storage, network, database, and other IT resources and management tools.
AWS offers flexibility.
You pay only for the invidivual services you need, for as long as you use them.
AWS services work together like building blocks.
References :
- AWS Foundations: Getting Started with the AWS Cloud Essentials (Pluralsight)
