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10 top AWS resources on O’Reilly’s online learning platform

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Amazon Web Services AWS: AWS Fundamentals — Richard Jones walks you through six hours of video instruction on AWS with coverage on cloud computing and available AWS services and provides a guided hands-on look at using services such as EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), S3 (Simple Storage Service), and more.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

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The hardware layer includes everything you can touch — servers, data centers, storage devices, and personal computers. The article promoted the idea of a new type of system administrator who would write code to automate maintenance, upgrades, and other tasks instead of doing everything manually. System administration.

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

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Containers have become the preferred way to run microservices — independent, portable software components, each responsible for a specific business task (say, adding new items to a shopping cart). Modern apps include dozens to hundreds of individual modules running across multiple machines— for example, eBay uses nearly 1,000 microservices.