In this video, I will introduce you to cloud computing and
why it matters to you. We will also learn about the
three major players in this field.
The term cloud computing can be vague and often misunderstood
for our purposes. However cloud computing
is a product or service that offers on demand delivery
of resources, like servers databases artificial
intelligence and storage. This is
in lieu of owning and operating your own infrastructure that
is located inside a data center.
There are many Cloud providers that offer compute services, but
the three main ones are Amazon web services or
AWS Google cloud and azure.
AWS is the original market disruptor and as the
largest market share Google cloud and Azure are
very popular as well and offer very similar products
to AWS going forward. However, we will
use AWS for our Hands-On labs and examples.
Choosing Google or as you're outside of this course is
perfectly fine and encouraged.
There are many benefits of using cloud computing over
the traditional own and operate model.
For example in the cloud provider you have
access to different technologies that you can spin up and use in
seconds.
You can also test drive infrastructure and services
before having to make a full commitment. This will save you
a ton of money and time.
Another positive aspect of using cloud computing is
when it comes to scaling when you own and operate your
own infrastructure, you must purchase extra servers and
provision them to scale your business out.
When using a cloud provider you can scale your Fleet up
or down automatically depending on traffic.
Cloud computing can be a big cost saver as well with a
pay-as-you-go model. You do
not have to worry about a surplus of servers or non-used Services.
You let the cloud provider worry about the
maintenance and availability so you can focus on what matters like
your customers.
Cloud computing also offers Global access to your services.
You can deploy your application anywhere in the
world in a mere moment. If you own an operated your
own Hardware, you would have to rent a data center space across the
world to do something very similar that would
cost us significant amount of money and people with
the correct skill sets.
In this video you learn that cloud computing is an on-demand service
that offers access to many resources like virtual machines
databases and storage. We also discussed
how on-demand pricing can save you money in the long run
as opposed to the own and operate model. Finally you
learn that cloud computing offers access to different
Technologies, which allows you to easily test drive them
before you have to make a commitment.
In our next video, we will keep expanding on cloud computing
and learn about service models.