Exploring Cloud Computing
by Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig
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Exploring Cloud Computing is a collection of hand-picked chapters introduction to the two most popular cloud providers, Amazon and Google, and insights to help you get started. Michael and Andreas Wittig, authors of Amazon Web Services in Action, selected hands-on topics to show you where to begin with cloud computing. You'll get an overview of what cloud services have to offer. Then you'll discover Google Cloud Platform. Other chapters explore AWS, serverless computing, and AWS Lambda that lets you run code in the cloud without managing the underlying operating systems and execution platforms. You upload your code and it's executed in the cloud and pay only for the time the function executes. Plus, you'll get a sample of some other Manning books you may want to add to your library. 
Book Description
Cloud Computing is enabling many trends in IT today: microservices, pay-as-you-go pricing, and serverless architectures, to name three. The biggest player in the market's Amazon, who offers the most mature cloud systems through their Amazon Web Services (AWS). Other companies are gaining traction as well: Google invests into their Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft entered the game with Azure.Exploring Cloud Computing is a collection of hand-picked chapters introduction to the two most popular cloud providers, Amazon and Google, and insights to help you get started. Michael and Andreas Wittig, authors of Amazon Web Services in Action, selected hands-on topics to show you where to begin with cloud computing. You'll get an overview of what cloud services have to offer. Then you'll discover Google Cloud Platform. Other chapters explore AWS, serverless computing, and AWS Lambda that lets you run code in the cloud without managing the underlying operating systems and execution platforms. You upload your code and it's executed in the cloud and pay only for the time the function executes. Plus, you'll get a sample of some other Manning books you may want to add to your library.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download Exploring Cloud Computing ebook for free in PDF format (10.8 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
The Cloud at Your Service
Chapter 2
Amazon Web Services in Action
Chapter 3
Google Cloud Platform in Action
Chapter 4
Serverless Architectures on AWS
Chapter 5
AWS Lambda in Action
Book Details
Title
Exploring Cloud Computing
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
Manning
Published
2017
Pages
121
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781617294877
ISBN10 Digital
161729487X
PDF Size
10.8 MB
License
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