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IN THIS CHAPTER

❯❯ Exploring the AWS cloud

❯❯ Considering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

❯❯ Defining when, why, and how to use AWS

❯❯ Ensuring you have a supported platform

There was a time when business development meant creating software for a single machine or for a workgroup. The client-server architecture, with its emphasis on both local and centralized servers, came next. Developers eventually started creating applications for the Internet as well, enabling people to do things like work from home without losing contact with the organization’s database. Browser-based applications actually appear on most desktops today, and you might spend much of your nondevelopment time using one.

As development has moved onward and outward, the tools, techniques, and processes for development have changed as well. Today you deal with the cloud, where the server that holds your application doesn’t even reside on the premises. In many respects, everyone is a remote user today. Of course, organizations have a huge investment in existing hardware and software, so you’re actually more likely to find yourself working in a hybrid environment with one foot on local resources and the other on someone else’s turf. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides you with a complete development environment, but for many developers, the changes that using AWS require are significant and awkward. This chapter helps you better understand what to expect from AWS and to feel just a little less awkward about the coming changes.

You may also find yourself drowning in a sea of new abbreviations and acronyms. Of course, you can act like you know what all these terms mean, but they’re actually important terms, and knowing what they mean gives you an edge over everyone else. This chapter also helps you understand terms like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and discover just what this new term means to you as a developer. If you already work on the Internet, you could possibly skip this part of the chapter, but if you’ve spent your career working with desktop applications or a local intranet, you definitely want to find out more.

Developers often find that the most frustrating part of creating an application is having the right tool. Development is more than knowing the right procedures and the right function calls – it’s a matter of knowing the most efficient manner in which to use them and determining when the tools already in use won’t do the job. This chapter closes with some essential information about the platforms that AWS supports. Reading this material will help you avoid some serious trouble later because you can avoid the most serious platform issues at the outset.