As much as I love working with a bare-metal system, modern technology has demanded a change in processes and techniques to utilize "The Cloud". From hosting to support services, everything is moving in that direction at an ever increasing pace. The benefit to the admin is seen in less time spent maintaining hardware and more time spent in refining and improving upon the actual services being provided.
Amazon Web Services
- Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Elastic Container & Elastic Kubernetes Service (ECS/EKS)
- Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Redshift
- Lambda
- Cloudfront
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Route 53
- Identity and Acces Management (IAM)
- Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- Simple Email Service (SES)
- CloudFormation
- CloudTrail
- ...and more things whose name or acronym doesn't suggest what they do. ;)
Other Cloud Hosting
- Heroku
- Microsoft Azure
- RackSpace
Supporting Services
- SendGrid
- ClearDB
- PubNub
- BugSnag
- StillAlive
- PaperTrail
- LogEntries
- MemCachier
- IronWorker
- loader.io