AWS Compute Options - Summary

Amazon offers a broad range of Compute options. Picking the right one is an important first step that will affect your application performance, cost, and future scalability. In this lesson, let’s go ahead and explore the various options available and see how we can match these with our business requirements.

Learning Objectives

• Virtual machine options for your applications
• Options for new software development projects
• Serverless options where AWS manages the infrastructure for you
• Containers that can be deployed in a traditional server or serverless fashion

Intended Audience

• Those new to cloud computing
• Those facing the challenge of deploying an application to AWS with very specific business requirements

Prerequisites

• You don’t need any prior knowledge of AWS to benefit from this lesson
• It’s helpful to be familiar with your business requirements