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AWS
AWS is Est. $30/mo. Amazon's cloud: virtual machines, object storage, Lambda, and managed databases.
What is AWS?
AWS is Est. $30/mo. AWS is the broadest cloud in this catalog. Typical pieces are EC2 for servers, S3 for files, Lambda for small functions, and DynamoDB or hosted Postgres for data.
AWS is a tool in the Cloud Hosting category of a tech stack.
Level
Key Features
EC2 and LambdaS3 storageManaged databases
AWS Pros & Cons
Pros of AWS
There is a service for most infrastructure problems
A lot of docs, libraries, and job listings assume it
It can grow past a single app
Cons of AWS
The invoice is hard to predict
IAM permissions take real time to get right