Tag: Amazon Web Services

  • Beginner’s Guide to Amazon Web Services [Infographic]

    Beginner’s Guide to Amazon Web Services [Infographic]

    Imagine a cloud-computing service so powerful, that it makes the work dozens of servers in a large room completely obsolete. From the U.S. to China and most countries in between, tens of thousands of businesses trust it with their online security and information. It powers websites that most internet users visit every day, including Reddit, Netflix and Pinterest. Yet, according to our friends at Udemy, almost 2/3rds of Americans don’t know what it is.

    The answer is Amazon Web Services, and it has changed how the World Wide Web is run in a profound way. It began in 2006 and has since expanded to a $40 billion product, with projections expecting that number to climb to $241 billion in the next 10 years.

    Udemy is an online learning marketplace where users can take educational courses in a plethora of subject matters, and they’ve created an infographic to tell us more about the prevalence of AWS, and why it is so important to our daily browsing.

    Beginner's Guide to Amazon Web Services

    The original infographic can be found at Udemy – AWS Training.

  • Free Self-hosting for Your WordPress Blog on Amazon Web Services

    Free Self-hosting for Your WordPress Blog on Amazon Web Services

    Hosting a website is cheaper and simpler than it has ever been. You can host a WordPress blog for free on wordpress.com, but that approach comes with significant limitations on using your own domain and monetizing your site; eventually WordPress will want you to start paying for things.

    Using other hosting providers often entails signing up to a year-long contract, and unless you are prepared to pay for more than a basic account, the level of control you have is limited.

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