How-to: Get started with Amazon EC2 Cloud
October 24, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Sean Hull.
If your company hasn’t ventured an Amazon cloud deployment already, the day may be fast approaching. Amazon’s pay-as-you-go cloud is no longer "just" a popular playground for developers, a magnet for technology startups, and the clandestine home of "shadow IT" projects. It’s also increasingly a component of official IT operations.
Working with the Amazon EC2 cloud isn’t especially difficult, but it is different. This quick guide will get you up and running and on your way to cloud mastery. When your company finally embarks on that Amazon deployment or the next stop in your career requires cloud skills, you’ll be ready to answer the call…
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