Intro to Cloud Computing | Seattle

About this workshop

Introduction to the basic concepts of cloud computing and cloud providers. We will outline the major categories of cloud providers: IaaS (Infrastructure as a service like AWS, Azure, Google), or PaaS (Platform as a Service like Heroku, Firebase or Google App Engine), and the different use-cases.

The class will cover the main building blocks of a web application hosted in the cloud: compute instances, types of storage, databases, load balancers, cache servers, DNS and security configuration.

Takeaways

• What are the different cloud providers
• What are the main building blocks of a cloud-hosted web application
• Details about the types of storage available, the role of load balancers, use-cases for cache servers, DNS, and implementing security for a web app