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Cloud compute resources

Cloud compute resources

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Cloud compute resources

- [Instructor] Before we dive into the specifics of cloud security, it's important to explore the basic building blocks of cloud computing. These are the infrastructure services that make up the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other cloud vendors. Let's begin our discussion with computing resources available in the cloud. As we move through this series of courses, we'll explore several different approaches for leveraging computing infrastructure in the cloud, but the primary way that most people do this is through the creation and management of virtual servers. These servers run in cloud data centers, taking advantage of all of the benefits of the cloud, and they're incredibly easy to create. In fact, let's do just that. Here I am logged into the AWS Management Console. I'm going to create a Linux server in AWS, then connect to it, use it for a little bit, and destroy it. We'll see how quickly that…

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