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AWS shared responsibility

AWS shared responsibility - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS shared responsibility

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- [Tutorials] Cloud computing is defined as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. This shared pool of configurable computing resources is actually composed of thousands of high-powered physical rack servers that are scattered in multiple data centers all across the globe. Each of these servers has an enterprise-grade process that can generate hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines that can be used by thousands of customers. A physical server is also called a host computer, which runs the host operating system and a hypervisor. This hypervisor is responsible for generating multiple virtual machines, each with its own guest operating system that is chosen by the customer. So, if you have a virtual machine right now in the US East Northern Virginia region, your server instance is actually running in one of the physical rack servers that are located in one of the many data centers within the…

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