Cloud as solution

You are planning to host your application and data in the cloud. You are mostly interested in a gaming servers, applications servers, computing servers and file servers. Given that you do not want to pay for the high cost related to hardware purchase and maintenance. You have then turned to AWS as a possible solution.

Source: Nawej, C $(2024)$

$4\mathrm{.}1$ Investigate AWS services and propose a platform that provides virtual machines where you can host the same kinds of applications that you might run on a traditional on$-$premises server and give the benefit of this platform.

$(10$ Marks$)$

$4\mathrm{.}2$ If you want to host an application on the cloud using the platform discussed above, indicate step by step the process of hosting an application in AWS.

$(10$ Marks$)$

$4\mathrm{.}3$ What can you do if you want to secure API calls to other AWS services in this case?

$(10$ Marks$)$