- So, now that we've talked
a little bit about the AWS account,
let's introduce some of the types of resources
that you can put into that account,
once you've provisioned it.
I like to think of AWS, as a lot of building blocks,
that can be used to put together workloads,
to meet your requirements.
But more specifically, I like to think about AWS,
in terms of LEGOs,
and there's a couple of different directions,
that we can go with this.
AWS is going to have some services,
that are best represented by saying
that you paid somebody else,
to go buy a set of LEGOs from the store for you,
and then, they went ahead and followed the instructions,
and built the entire set for you,
and then, they just hand it over.
There are other services in AWS,
that are closer to you personally walking
into the LEGO store, buying a box off the shelf,
taking it home.
AWS has made sure that you have the instructions,
and that you have all the pieces you need
to put it together.
But that's not all.
AWS also has services that are closer
to you taking a trip, to the LEGO factory.
Where you get to walk onto the factory floor,
and see
so many different pieces
of different sizes, shapes, colors,
and you can mix and match,
to meet your requirements exactly.
There might not be instructions,
but if you already have a pretty good idea
of what you're going to build,
there will always be the right pieces there,
for you to construct whatever end result you'd like.
Now, more specifically,
looking at this list of building blocks,
there are a lot of different things you can do,
like create your own private network,
or launching a virtual machine,
or a hundred virtual machines,
or a thousand virtual machines.
You can migrate data from on-premises.
You can create an entire hybrid infrastructure,
that includes both cloud resources, and on-prem resources.
Or you could even configure an entire end to end,
continuous integration or continuous deployment pipeline.