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Virtual appliance used within Amazon EC2
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a special type of virtual appliance that is used to create a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It serves as the basic unit of deployment for services delivered using EC2. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Amazon Machine ImageA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Invitation to Computer ScienceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Amazon Web Service–Google Cross-Cloud Platform for Machine Learning-Based Satellite Image DetectionCited 4 times
- Go sideways: Amazon Elastic Compute CloudA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Eucalyptus (software)A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
Invitation to Computer ScienceG. Michael Schneider, Judith L. Gersting · 1995
Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
Darkness in El DoradoPatrick Tierney · 2000- 📕Data and Information TechnologyJerry Ramonyai · 2022
- 📕Amazon Machine ImageGerardus Blokdyk · 2018
- 📕The new media invasionJohn David Ebert · 2011
- 📕Histoire de la misogynieAdeline Gargam · 2013
Introduction to making very big booksUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions · 2011
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