Getting Started With Cloud
Getting Started With Cloud
computing
Noha Bakry
What is cloud computing?
• Cloud computing is the on-demand
delivery of IT resources over the
Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
• Instead of buying, owning, and
maintaining physical data centers
and servers, you can access
technology services, such as
computing power, storage, and
databases, on an as-needed basis
from a cloud provider like Amazon
Web Services (AWS).
Cloud Servers
• A cloud server is internet infrastructure that provides computing
resources to users remotely.
• cloud servers will always be running as virtual machines, or software
systems that emulate computers, within much larger server clusters in
a process known as virtualization.
Cloud Software
• Operating systems: To set up a cloud server, one of the first things
you need to do is install an operating system.
• Server-side software: This is a class of software that’s designed to run
in a cloud environment, which does not have a desktop environment
or a display connected to it.
• Usually, this means that the software is installed and configured via a
command line interface, and then accessed by regular users through a
web browser or another application.
Cloud Software
Web servers: This software enables your cloud server to communicate with
users or applications on the internet using the HTTP protocol. Server-side
software, like a web server, has to respond in a well-defined way to certain
types of requests from clients or client-side software.