Reading-Notes

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Read: 17 - AWS: S3 and Lambda

Describe “The Cloud”

the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

What is a container (as it relates to computers and servers)?

a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies.

What is auto-scaling?

is a method used in cloud computing that dynamically adjusts the amount of computational resources in a server farm - typically measured by the number of active servers - automatically based on the load on the farm.

What is bandwidth?

is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path.

How do cloud providers compute service costs?

Vocab:

Server Instances: a collection of SQL Server databases which are run by a solitary SQL Server service or instance.

Containers: the standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies

Cloud Services: are infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by third-party providers and made available to users through the internet.

Cloud Architecture: the way technology components combine to build a cloud, in which resources are pooled through virtualization technology and shared across a network.

AWS: Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

EC2/Beanstalk vs Heroku: Heroku pricing scales very quickly when you add features. AWS’s pricing is linear.