Ops 201 Reading 13: Cloud Virtualization with AWS - CamBerry1/reading-notes GitHub Wiki

Why this topic relates to the module

We've been using a variety of virtual machines on a hypervisor. Amazon has of course found a way to monotize this process and make it easily accessible to the public.

Summary

EC2 -> Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) which provides virtual servers

AMI -> Amazon Machine Image

  • Virtual appliance; creates on-demand virtual machines within EC2

Virtualization is controlled through a web interface, and can be completely managed through API (Application Programming Interface)

Things I want to know more about

I see the acronym API pop up a lot

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