AWS

Major cloud platform

AWS, short for Amazon Web Services, is Amazon's cloud computing platform—a vast collection of on-demand computing resources including servers, storage, databases, and networking infrastructure.

Companies rent these services rather than maintaining their own hardware: We're migrating everything to AWS.

AWS dominates the cloud market alongside Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

cloud

Amazon Web Services

Cloud computing platform

serverless · virtual machines · data centers · regions · elastic · scalable · on-demand · pay-as-you-go · cloud storage · compute

services

Lambda

Serverless compute service

EMR

developer

SDK

Programming tools bundle

  • CLIText-based computer interface
  • consoleComfort in distress
  • APIsSoftware communication protocols

documentation · DevOps · containers · Docker · microservices · architecture · blueprints · tutorials · training · certifications

business

Amazon

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Bezos · pricing · billing · free tier · marketplace · partners · certifications · consulting · support · contracts

infrastructure

servers

Machines providing network resources

auto-scaling · firewalls · subnets · CDN · clusters · nodes · storage · volumes · snapshots · backups

Categories
Opposites
infrastructure deployment model

AWSon-premises

Installed locally, not cloud

on-prem · bare metal · colocation · desktop computing

cloud provider competition

AWSAzure

Microsoft cloud computing service

GCP

Family

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