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This course 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 course 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 course 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 course, you should already have some basic knowledge of cloud computing. If you would like to brush up on your knowledge before taking this course, please consider taking our What is Cloud Computing? course.
The next section we will cover is ECS Images. Images are a template of a runtime environment for an ECS Instance. There are 4 main types.
Public System Images: Public images licensed by Alibaba Cloud are highly secure and stable. These public images include most Windows Server and mainstream Linux systems. These images only include standard system environments and you can apply your own customization and configurations based on these images.
Marketplace Images: Alibaba Cloud Marketplace images are classified into the following 2 types. Images provided by Alibaba Cloud and Images provided by Independent Software Vendors and licensed by Alibaba Cloud Marketplace An Alibaba Cloud Marketplace image contains an operating system and pre-installed software. The operating system and pre-installed software are tested and verified by the ISV and Alibaba Cloud to ensure that the images are safe to use. These are suitable for website building, application development, and other personalized use scenarios.
Custom Image: Custom images are created from Instances or system snapshots, or imported from your local device. Only the creator of a custom image can use, share, copy, and delete the image. These custom images can be used to create more instances, saving you the effort of creating a new system from scratch.
Shared Image: A shared image is a custom image that has been shared to other users or accounts. Alibaba Cloud cannot guarantee the security and integrity of the images shared with you. You use them at your own risk and discretion.
Lectures
Overview - ECS Concepts - ECS Instances - ECS Storage - ECS Snapshots - ECS Security Groups - ECS Networking - ECS Demo
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.
Outside of work, his main love is flying Radio control airplanes, and teaching people to fly them.