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| Amazon is a huge company with an extensive portfolio of de facto standards. Many of them merit little or no interest within the DIDO world; however, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a lot of functionality deserving consideration by DIDO [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c:coi]] | Amazon is a huge company with an extensive portfolio of de facto standards. Many of them merit little or no interest within the DIDO world; however, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a lot of functionality deserving consideration by DIDO [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c:coi]] | ||
| - | * //Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. In aggregate, these cloud computing web services provide a set of primitive abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools. One of these services is Amazon [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:e:ec2]], which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. AWS's version of virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c:cpu]] and [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gpu]] for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:a:application|application]] software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM).[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services]] // \\ | + | * //Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. In aggregate, these cloud computing web services provide a set of primitive abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools. One of these services is Amazon [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:e:ec2]], which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:i:internet|Internet]]. AWS's version of virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c:cpu]] and [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gpu]] for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:a:application|application]] software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM).[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services]] // \\ |
| ==== de facto Standards ==== | ==== de facto Standards ==== | ||