What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a term referred to storing and accessing data over the internet. It doesn’t store any data on the hard disk of your personal computer. In cloud computing, you can access data from a remote server.

What is AWS?

Amazon web service is a platform that offers flexible, reliable, scalable, easy-to-use and cost-effective cloud computing solutions.

AWS is a comprehensive, easy to use computing platform offered Amazon. The platform is developed with a combination of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

AWS Compute Services

Here, are  some main Cloud Compute Services offered by Amazon:

  • EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) – EC2 is a virtual machine in the cloud on which you have OS level control. You can run this cloud server whenever you want.
  • LightSail -This cloud computing tool automatically deploys and manages the computer, storage, and networking capabilities required to run your applications.
  • Elastic Beanstalk —  The tool offers automated deployment and provisioning of resources like a highly scalable production website.
  • EKS (Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) — The tool allows you to Kubernetes on Amazon cloud environment without installation.