1 00:00:06,950 --> 00:00:07,960 - So, now that we've talked 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,443 a little bit about the AWS account, 3 00:00:11,550 --> 00:00:14,040 let's introduce some of the types of resources 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,510 that you can put into that account, 5 00:00:16,510 --> 00:00:17,963 once you've provisioned it. 6 00:00:19,050 --> 00:00:23,900 I like to think of AWS, as a lot of building blocks, 7 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:26,120 that can be used to put together workloads, 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,210 to meet your requirements. 9 00:00:28,210 --> 00:00:32,250 But more specifically, I like to think about AWS, 10 00:00:32,250 --> 00:00:34,000 in terms of LEGOs, 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,370 and there's a couple of different directions, 12 00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:36,673 that we can go with this. 13 00:00:37,668 --> 00:00:41,750 AWS is going to have some services, 14 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:44,530 that are best represented by saying 15 00:00:44,530 --> 00:00:46,940 that you paid somebody else, 16 00:00:46,940 --> 00:00:50,550 to go buy a set of LEGOs from the store for you, 17 00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:55,000 and then, they went ahead and followed the instructions, 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,530 and built the entire set for you, 19 00:00:59,530 --> 00:01:01,940 and then, they just hand it over. 20 00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:04,820 There are other services in AWS, 21 00:01:04,820 --> 00:01:07,180 that are closer to you personally walking 22 00:01:07,180 --> 00:01:11,060 into the LEGO store, buying a box off the shelf, 23 00:01:11,060 --> 00:01:11,893 taking it home. 24 00:01:11,893 --> 00:01:15,610 AWS has made sure that you have the instructions, 25 00:01:15,610 --> 00:01:17,510 and that you have all the pieces you need 26 00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:18,683 to put it together. 27 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,243 But that's not all. 28 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,210 AWS also has services that are closer 29 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:28,793 to you taking a trip, to the LEGO factory. 30 00:01:29,820 --> 00:01:31,920 Where you get to walk onto the factory floor, 31 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:33,600 and see 32 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,290 so many different pieces 33 00:01:35,290 --> 00:01:40,280 of different sizes, shapes, colors, 34 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,130 and you can mix and match, 35 00:01:42,130 --> 00:01:44,810 to meet your requirements exactly. 36 00:01:44,810 --> 00:01:47,130 There might not be instructions, 37 00:01:47,130 --> 00:01:48,940 but if you already have a pretty good idea 38 00:01:48,940 --> 00:01:50,620 of what you're going to build, 39 00:01:50,620 --> 00:01:54,090 there will always be the right pieces there, 40 00:01:54,090 --> 00:01:58,410 for you to construct whatever end result you'd like. 41 00:01:58,410 --> 00:01:59,450 Now, more specifically, 42 00:01:59,450 --> 00:02:02,160 looking at this list of building blocks, 43 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,790 there are a lot of different things you can do, 44 00:02:03,790 --> 00:02:07,790 like create your own private network, 45 00:02:07,790 --> 00:02:11,400 or launching a virtual machine, 46 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,020 or a hundred virtual machines, 47 00:02:13,020 --> 00:02:14,923 or a thousand virtual machines. 48 00:02:15,820 --> 00:02:19,460 You can migrate data from on-premises. 49 00:02:19,460 --> 00:02:22,230 You can create an entire hybrid infrastructure, 50 00:02:22,230 --> 00:02:27,230 that includes both cloud resources, and on-prem resources. 51 00:02:27,380 --> 00:02:31,410 Or you could even configure an entire end to end, 52 00:02:31,410 --> 00:02:34,413 continuous integration or continuous deployment pipeline.