Before starting to read the book, basic knowledge of networking concepts, basic knowledge of cloud computing, cloud service models, and cloud deployment models, basic knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems would be useful. 

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781789535549_ColorImages.pdf.

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "A /16 is a typical size, and this gives your VPC 65536 private IP addresses it can use."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ sudo yum update

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "We could, of course, switch the Volume Type to Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1), or use the cheaper Magnetic (standard) storage."