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Cloud Computing AWS Textbook

A free, self-paced textbook in 8 chapters. Read a chapter, then drill it with the 170 companion flashcards using spaced repetition.

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Chapters

  1. 1Cloud Computing & AWS Foundations

    Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing, replacing the need to own and operate physical data centers. Major providers...

  2. 2Identity, Security & Governance

    AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls who can access what in an account. Its four core components are Users (individual people or applications), Groups (collections of...

  3. 3Compute Services

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable virtual servers called instances, billed by the second or hour. Customers choose an instance type from five main families: Gen...

  4. 4Storage Services

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is the foundational object storage service in AWS, offering virtually unlimited storage with eleven nines of durability and objects up to 5 TB in...

  5. 5Networking & Content Delivery

    Every workload that runs in a VPC ultimately relies on a small set of networking primitives. An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated virtual network scoped to...

  6. 6Databases, Messaging & Analytics

    Managed relational databases on AWS start with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora (which is MySQ...

  7. 7Application Services, Monitoring & DevOps

    The application-facing services at AWS make it easier to expose APIs, authenticate users, and build full-stack experiences. Amazon API Gateway creates, publishes, maintains, monito...

  8. 8AI/ML, IoT & Edge Computing

    Amazon SageMaker is the fully managed machine learning platform covering every stage of the ML lifecycle: labeling, data preparation, training through built-in algorithms, BYO fram...

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