Cloud 101: Introduction: Reference

AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are fantastic initial public cloud resources.

{“All three regularly visit UW”=>”Purpose and outcome”}

There is a framework for the cloud that includes { yourself, colleagues, vendors, stacks, and third parties (open/closed) }

The stack is five components { compute, store, manage, web, service }

‘Service’ is just providing the other four components free of underlying concerns like VMs (‘Dinner with no plates and no table’)

AWS is low-cost, feature rich, in widest use

Google is also low-cost, has unique but narrower feature set

Azure features fast connectivity and lots of integration with the Microsoft technology stack

All public clouds have OS emphasis: Linux first and Windows also