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What is Cloud Computing?

$ echo `whoami`

Okay, so what is it?

No but seriously

• 74% of Tech Chief Financial Officers say cloud computing had the most measurable impact on their business in 2017, according to Forbes
• Cloud computing spending is expected to grow at better than 6x the rate of IT spending through 2020, according to IDC.
• Cloud computing spending has been growing at 4.5 times the rate of IT spending since 2009 and is expected to grow at better than 6 times the rate of IT spending from 2015 through 2020 according to Forbes
• More than 50% of IT spending will be cloud-based by 2018, according toForbes

https://www.sysgroup.com/resources/blog/10-cloud-computing-statistics-2018

Major Companies using Cloud Computing

Cloud Providers

3 types of Services

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

  • Data storage, Networking, virtualization

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

  • Operating system, runtime, middleware

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

  • Application and Data

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

You build it......They will come

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

If you deploy it......They will still come

Software as a Service (SaaS)

If you buy it.....You get the idea

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Cloud Services

So many services

What do I choose?

It depends

What are you trying to do?

There are several solutions for the same thing

That doesn't help me

We can get certified

Cloud certifications

• Google Cloud Platform
• Professional Cloud Architect
• Professional Data Engineer
• Professional Cloud Developer
• Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Cloud certifications

• Validate skills to employer

• Be eligible for new positions

  • Cloud Architect

  • Cloud Engineer 

  • Cloud Software Developer

• Increase your earning potential

• Increase job security

Today's exercise

Today we are going to be creating virtual machines

• We are going to walk through the AWS Console

• We are going to create a virtual machine

• We are going to see a "website" 

• We are going to destroy the virtual machine

So how will we do this?

Thank you very much for coming