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Is the cloud all fluff or a force of nature?

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• What is the cloud?
  • Your app can scale by creating more services through a REST API
  • Biggest advantage
    • being able to go from 1 server to 100 servers in a matter of minutes
• Storage
• Instances (servers)
• CDN (Content Delivery Network)
• Simple Queue Service
• Simple Notification Service
• Services
  • Amazon
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Azure
  • Opensource
    • Openstack
    • Eucalyptus
• Want to get started and mess around in the cloud?
  • Amazon Free Tier