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- Before we talk about
the services and features

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of the AWS ecosystem, let's
go ahead and define AWS first.

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Now, it is an acronym and it
stands for Amazon Web Services.

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And what you can see here
is the official definition

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straight from AWS themselves
as to what exactly is

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Amazon Web Services.

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And a lot of it looks like buzzwords

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maybe a little bit of marketing speak

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but there are a couple of things

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that I'd like to pick
out of this definition.

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First is the word cloud.

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Now I've taught cloud topics
for a number of years now.

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And I used to start all my courses

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by asking everyone in attendance,
what exactly is the cloud?

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And if you ask 100 different
technical professionals

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what is the cloud?

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You're gonna get a
hundred different answers

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but they're going to be broken down

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into some similar topics.

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Such as on demand resource provisioning

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or pay as you go pricing

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as well as the fact that it's
always network accessible.

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But that's not the only
thing that we can pull

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out of this definition.

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AWS has been around since
2006 and over the years

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it has grown enormously.

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Not only in breadth, but in depth.

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There is always more than one way

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to get a task accomplished in AWS.

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And as of today, there are

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over 200 unique individual
services each with their own sets

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of tasks and features that can
be accomplished using them.

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Part of that enormous growth
has also been infrastructure.

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And AWS has data centers all
over the world with millions

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of servers that are available
for the customers to use.

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And finally, and this is a little bit

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of the marketing side of it,
but it helps you to understand

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that you can use AWS to lower
the total cost of ownership

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of operating an infrastructure

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as well as improving the
agility of your organization.
