Cloud Service Models & AWS Core Infrastructure
Learn IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS, AWS EC2 compute instances, S3 object storage buckets, RDS databases, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking.
Learning Objectives & Cloud Architecture
### Learning Objectives
- Compare Cloud Service Models: IaaS (AWS EC2), PaaS (AWS Elastic Beanstalk), and SaaS (Google Workspace).
- Configure AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) public and private subnets.
- Store static assets securely using AWS S3 bucket access policies.
- Understand cloud elasticity and auto-scaling group metrics.
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### Cloud Computing Paradigms
Cloud computing replaces physical on-premise datacenter hardware with elastic, pay-as-you-go infrastructure resources provisioned via web APIs.