PC for business: Amazon Web Services: The smart person's guide

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Amazon Web Services: The smart person's guide

This comprehensive guide about AWS covers the expansive cloud services offered by Amazon, common use cases and technical limitations, and what to know for adopting this technology.

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