- Before we talk about the services and features
of the AWS ecosystem, let's go ahead and define AWS first.
Now, it is an acronym and it stands for Amazon Web Services.
And what you can see here is the official definition
straight from AWS themselves as to what exactly is
Amazon Web Services.
And a lot of it looks like buzzwords
maybe a little bit of marketing speak
but there are a couple of things
that I'd like to pick out of this definition.
First is the word cloud.
Now I've taught cloud topics for a number of years now.
And I used to start all my courses
by asking everyone in attendance, what exactly is the cloud?
And if you ask 100 different technical professionals
what is the cloud?
You're gonna get a hundred different answers
but they're going to be broken down
into some similar topics.
Such as on demand resource provisioning
or pay as you go pricing
as well as the fact that it's always network accessible.
But that's not the only thing that we can pull
out of this definition.
AWS has been around since 2006 and over the years
it has grown enormously.
Not only in breadth, but in depth.
There is always more than one way
to get a task accomplished in AWS.
And as of today, there are
over 200 unique individual services each with their own sets
of tasks and features that can be accomplished using them.
Part of that enormous growth has also been infrastructure.
And AWS has data centers all over the world with millions
of servers that are available for the customers to use.
And finally, and this is a little bit
of the marketing side of it, but it helps you to understand
that you can use AWS to lower the total cost of ownership
of operating an infrastructure
as well as improving the agility of your organization.