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Cloud infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure

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Cloud infrastructure

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- [Instructor] In Chapter One, I covered cloud infrastructure. We began with a review of cloud computing components. The most common way to perform computing in the cloud is the use of virtualized server instances, but that isn't the only way. Containers take virtualization to the next level, allowing customers to design portable computing environments that can easily be moved between different platforms and operating systems. Serverless computing provides customers with the ability to execute functions in a variety of programming languages and at large scale on an infrastructure that's transparent to the customer. When we use platform or software as a service models, we move computing to the cloud and let the vendor worry about the computing infrastructure. We also spoke about the importance of carefully choosing locations for cloud data centers and how you might build your own data center or lease one from another…

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