Key AWS services
AWS offers several services under each tier. Depending on your target cloud strategy, you can cherry-pick what part of your work you would like to offload to the cloud provider. The following sections highlight the services that are widely adopted by most organizations. Let’s start with the infrastructure.
Abstracting the infrastructure
AWS’s core capabilities revolve around infrastructure services that are offered through APIs and SDKs. High-velocity software delivery depends on being able to provision and scale infrastructure resources at the click of a button. Let’s discuss some commonly used services.
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offers broad computing capabilities that allow the user to choose between different processor types, storage, networking, and operating system. The EC2 family encompasses different services such as Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic File Storage (EFS), and networking to meet the needs of...