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Cloud administration

Cloud administration - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Cloud administration

- [Instructor] The flex ability and on-demand model that the cloud provides results in a changing role for the traditional systems administrator. The provisioning of servers, installation of software, and wiring up of network devices are now clicks of the mouse and command-line API calls. The cloud demands that system administrators think even more about automation, because the infrastructure they are administering is now programmable. System administrators now need to manage abstract, virtual cloud resources. They need to be more aware of the underlying applications running on the infrastructure. Likewise, the traditional role of the database administrator changes when taking advantage of cloud resources. Database administrators will start to manage their resources through a web-based console, executing scripts that alter database capacity when needed. This new DBA needs to be aware of using virtual machine images for…

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