#aws 101

AWS 101: Learning About Default VPC

To set the stage for explaining Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Clouds, I previously walked through AWS Regions and Availability Zones in another blog post. With that as the foundation, we can start taking a look at the concept of a Virtual Private Cloud and how it enables advanced networking capabilities for your AWS resources. Virtual Private Cloud, aka VPC, is defined by AWS as a “virtual…

AWS 101: Learning About Regions and Availability Zones

In their most most recent earnings call, Amazon reported that their Amazon Web Services division has reached a $14.2 billion run rate. As impressive as that is, AWS and the entire cloud market still only represents a small slice of the total IT budget worldwide. In fact while IDC projects the Public Cloud to be a ~$200 billion market by 2020, it also projects the total IT budget in 2020 to be…