Cloud Computing
8 items across 1 section
The $10 Billion Mistake That Revolutionized Computing Forever (And Why Your USB Drive Is Now a Museum Piece)
From forgotten USB drives to the cloud revolution: how Drew Houston's bus ride and Amazon S3's launch changed computing forever, validated by Instagram's $1B acquisition.
EC2 Getting Started: Launch Your First Virtual Server on AWS
Step-by-step guide to launching, configuring, and managing your first Amazon EC2 instance, covering instance types, security groups, key pairs, SSH access, web server setup, monitoring, and cost management.
EC2 Instance Types Deep Dive: Choosing the Right Machine for Any Workload
Master EC2 instance type selection. Learn instance families, burstable instances and CPU credits, purchasing options, enhanced networking, placement groups, and right-sizing strategies.
AWS Lambda Deep Dive: Serverless Computing from First Function to Production
Complete guide to AWS Lambda covering the execution model, deployment options, triggers, cold starts, concurrency, pricing, and production architecture patterns.
Amazon S3 Deep Dive: Object Storage from Basics to Production
Complete guide to Amazon S3 covering the object model, storage classes, security, encryption, lifecycle policies, replication, performance optimization, and cost management.
Amazon RDS Deep Dive: Managed Relational Databases on AWS
Complete guide to Amazon RDS and Aurora covering supported engines, Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, backups, security, monitoring, Aurora architecture, and production best practices.
Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: NoSQL at Any Scale
Complete guide to Amazon DynamoDB covering data modeling, primary keys, secondary indexes, capacity modes, transactions, streams, global tables, DAX caching, and production best practices.
I Just Became an AWS Community Builder ... And I Owe It to You
A thank you to my readers, and a call to support open source AWS tools.
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