7 — Cloud Infrastructure, VMs & Server Operating Systems

Cloud Infrastructure, Virtual Machines and Server Operating Systems A conceptual and reference deck for working engineers Service models, compute economics, AWS vs GCP vs Azure, Linux, Windows Server, Kubernetes, automation By Md Ahbab Hamid Khan

Agenda Orientation 2 ▪ Service models, regions, zones, shared responsibility ▪ Shared versus dedicated compute and the cost of sharing ▪ AWS, GCP and Azure compared feature by feature ▪ Free tiers, egress and the classic surprise bills ▪ A complete Linux server build, plus swap tuning ▪ Windows Server, containers and Kubernetes ▪ Terraform, Ansible and cloud-init for reproducibility

Assumed prerequisites Orientation 3 ▪ Fluency in at least one programming language ▪ Comfort with functions, classes and async execution ▪ Working knowledge of HTTP, DNS and TLS basics ▪ Git for version control and code review ▪ A terminal, an editor and basic command line habits ▪ No prior cloud or system administration experience needed