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AWS & Azure - How to Create Virtual Machines
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01
Manual UI Creation (AWS Console & Azure Portal)
Virtual machines can be created manually through a cloud provider's web UI. In AWS, this is called the AWS Console (where you request an…
Cloud
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The Role of Cloud APIs
To automate infrastructure creation, cloud providers expose APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their services (e.g., the AWS EC2…
Cloud
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Tools for Automating VM Creation
Once you understand the API, you can use various tools to script your requests instead of doing them manually:
Concept
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Terraform vs. Cloud-Native Tools (CFT/CDK)
A common interview question is when to use Terraform versus a proprietary tool like AWS CDK. If an organization is adopting a Hybrid Cloud…
Cloud
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