I recently started getting interested in cloud technology and wanted to understand how it actually works. I have been working in IT support for about 2.5 years and I want to move into cloud tech side. So I decided to start learning AWS and document everything I learn here. This is Day 1 of this journey.
What is Cloud Computing?
Before cloud came into picture, companies used to buy their own physical servers and store everything in their own office or data center. This was expensive and hard to manage.
Cloud computing means instead of owning a server yourself, you rent computing power, storage and other services over the internet from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, or Google. And here you only pay for what you use( Pay-As-You-Go).
Think of it like electricity - you don't build your own power plant at home, you just use the electricity and pay the bill. Cloud works in the saw way for the technology.
What is AWS?
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. It is the cloud platform made by Amazon and it currently the biggest cloud provider in the world. It offers more than 200+ services including storage, servers, databases, AI tools and many more services. Many big companies like Netflix, Airbnb uses AWS to run their systems.
Today I created my AWS free account. You can type AWS account creation and it will take you the page. During the sign-up process it asks for debit or credit card but don't worry it will not charge you as long as you stay within the free tier limits.
The free tier gives you access to many services for 6 months without any cost which is great for learning and building projects.
Tomorrow I will start with AWS Cloud course and begin learning about the core services. I will write about everything I learn here for all the future references and also if anyone wants to learn AWS from scratch they can follow along too 🤖
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