Introduction Intro to cloud computing Advantages of cloud computing Introduction to AWS AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Section 1: Introduction to cloud computing What is cloud computing ? Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing Infrastructure as software Cloud computing enable you to stop thinking of your infrastructure as hardware and instead think of it as software . In the traditional compute model: Infrastructure as hardware Hardware solutions Require space, staff, physical security, planning, capital expenditure Have a long hardware procurement cycle Require you to provision capacity by guessing max peaks Cloud computing model: Infrastructure as software Software solutions: Are flexible Can change more quickly, easily and cost-effectively than hardware solutions Eliminate the undifferentiated heavy-lifting tasks Cloud servic