Summary
This chapter pieced together many of the technologies, best practices, and AWS services we cover in the book. As fully featured as AWS has become, it will certainly continue to provide more and more services to help enterprises, large and small, simplify the information technology infrastructure.
In this chapter, you learned about cloud computing and the key differences between the public and private cloud. This lead into learning more about the largest public cloud provider, AWS, and about its market share and adoption.
We also covered some reasons that the cloud in general and AWS, in particular, are so popular. As we learned, one of the main reasons for the cloud’s popularity is the concept of elasticity, which we explored in detail. You learned about AWS services growth over the year along with it’s key differentiators from other cloud providers. Further, you explored AWS terminology compared to other key players like Azure and GCP. Finally, you learned...
