Amazon Web Services

Bezos's server empire

Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform operated by Amazon, commonly known by its initialism AWS.

It provides on-demand computing resources—servers, storage, databases, and networking—rented remotely rather than owned and operated locally.

AWS dominates the cloud infrastructure market alongside Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud: We're migrating our servers to Amazon Web Services.

infrastructure

Lambda

Serverless compute service

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analytics

Athena

Greek wisdom deity

  • data lakeMass storage for unprocessed information
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data warehouse · machine learning · business intelligence · data pipeline · ETL · data mining · petabyte · query · visualization · data processing

scalability

elasticity

Tendency to resume original form

provisioning · capacity planning · redundancy · fault tolerance · regions · multi-region · traffic management · resource allocation · on-demand · pay-as-you-go

enterprise

migration

Movement to new territory

billing · organizations · control tower · landing zone · governance · marketplace · professional services · training · certification

Categories
Opposites
infrastructure ownership model

Amazon Web Servicescolocation

Shared hosting facility

dedicated servers

computing paradigm

Amazon Web Servicesdesktop computing

Using stationary personal computers

personal computer · edge computing

computing philosophy

Amazon Web Servicespeer-to-peer networks

Decentralized file-sharing architecture

edge computing · personal computing · homelab

Family

Amazon, webbed, webbing, service, serve, served, server, servers, serving

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