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Sami Ullah Saleem

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What is AWS and it's services?

What is AWS?
AWS means Amazon Web Services. It's providing us with cloud services and has a lot of Data Centers all over the world. It's the leading cloud services Market.

How does AWS Work?
AWS works with user requirements and their configuration. It's a platform that provides complete customization.

Advantages of AWS

  • It gives us a user-friendly model, architecture, databases, and operating system which is already known by programmers.
  • It's very cost-effective.
  • There is no need to pay extra money on running data servers.
  • It gives us total ownership at reasonable prices.

Applications of AWS

  • Storage and Backup
  • Gaming
  • Website
  • Mobile, web, and social Applications
  • Big Data Management
  • Messages and Notifications
  • Game Development
  • Augmented Reality
  • Internet of Things

Services

  • Computing Services
  • Storage
  • Database
  • Networking and delivery of content
  • Security Tools
  • Developer Tools
  • Management Tools

Let's dig into details in each of this

  1. Computing Services
    • AWS EC2
    • AWS Lambda
  2. Storage
    • Amazon S3
    • Amazon EBS
  3. Database
    • DynamoDB
    • RDS
  4. Network and Delivery Of Content
    • VPC
    • Route 53
  5. Developer Tools
    • Code Star
    • Code Build
  6. Security
    • IAM
    • KMS
  7. Management Tools
    • Cloud Watch
    • Cloud Formation

Conclusion
In this introductory blog, we have seen What is AWS and its services?
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Muhammad Saim Hashmi

Overall for a quick intro, the article is perfect. But I would have loved it more if the sub-categories were introduced with basic functionality at least in 1 or may be 2 lines. Good efforts.