Setting up a production environment
A production environment is the client-facing environment that focuses on good performance and availability. Setting up production environments is not really something we developers tend to do, especially if there are robust requirements around scaling, load balancing, high availability, and similar. Sometimes, however, we need to set up a simple production environment. There are various cloud providers that offer quick and simple solutions to this. For the purpose of this section, we will turn to Amazon Web Services.
Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services frequently referred to as web services. AWS provides on-demand computing resources and services in the cloud, with pay-as-you-go pricing. Amazon gives a nice comparison of its AWS resources, saying that using AWS resources instead of your own is like purchasing electricity from a power company instead of running your own generator.
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