Chapter 2. Amazon Cloud Computing

As I mentioned in the previous chapter, this book is a far-ranging, general guide for developers and systems administrators who are building transactional web applications in any cloud. As I write this book, however, the term “cloud infrastructure” is largely synonymous with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 for a majority of people working in the cloud. This reality combined with my use of Amazon cloud examples demands an overview of cloud computing specifically in the Amazon cloud.

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