Everybody’s talking about cloud services today. It’s one of the hot new buzzwords, but most of the conversation is about how to develop custom applications in the cloud. While that is a really important topic, it ignores another very useful attribute of a distributed cloud: as a great place to build and host an IT infrastructure. The dearth of discussion about this overlooked facet of cloud computing is the reason I wrote this book. I was especially interested in discussing the topic in the context of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud offering because it is my opinion that Amazon’s service represents one of the most flexible.
