Day 1 – Introduction to Cloud (Free Demo)

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Session Notes

• Cloud computing is a set of system working together to act as a single system either within a single data center or across multiple data centers
• NIST has defined 5 characteristics the cloud should have and what models are available.
• Cloud has 3 services models (SAAS, PAAS & IAAS) and 4 deployment models (Private, Public, Hybrid & Community)
• AWS was born out of the innovations done for improving Amazon.com back-end infrastructure. AWS was officially launched in 2006.
• AWS is the leading cloud service provider with approximately 90% of the total CPU cores available in the cloud market.
• AWS provides a complete end to end robust full stack technology platform.
• Core Network comprises of Regions, Availability Zones(AZ) and Edge Locations.
• AWS has their own physical fiber network connecting the regions, AZs and most edge locations
• Regions are geographically different locations.
• Each region has at least 2 Availability Zones.
• AZs can be used for setting up a high availability setup or be used as Disaster Recovery site(DR)
• Edge locations are part of a CDN network that is used for caching static objects for faster content delivery.