Alibaba Fundamentals - Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
This lesson introduces you to Alibaba’s Elastic Compute Service, or ECS, one of the most common services within the Alibaba platform. It is a high-performance, stable, reliable, and scalable compute service that allows you to deploy virtual servers within your Alibaba Cloud environment. Most people will require some form of ECS Instance running within their environment as a part of at least one of their solutions.
This lesson covers the following components:
- ECS Concepts
- ECS Instances
- ECS Images
- ECS Storage
- ECS Snapshots
- ECS Security Groups and
- ECS Networks
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Intended Audience
This lesson is designed for IT professionals who are just starting out in the world of Alibaba Cloud and want to know more about the ECS service it offers.
Prerequisites
To get the most from this lesson, you should already have some basic knowledge of cloud computing. If you would like to brush up on your knowledge before taking this lesson, please consider taking our What is Cloud Computing? lesson.
David has been a trainer with QA for over 12 years and has been training cloud technologies since 2017. Currently certified in Microsoft and Alibaba cloud technologies David has previously been a system and Network administrator amongst other roles.
Currently, he is a Principle Technology Learning Specialist (Cloud) at QA. He loves nothing more than teaching cloud-based courses and also has a passion for teaching PowerShell scripting.
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