AWS refresher
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services and belongs to Amazon, which provides the e-commerce platform amazon.com.au. AWS provides services that allow organizations to run their applications in a complete infrastructure without owning any of the hardware required.
The AWS brand is a household name for developers and almost all developers have some basic direct/indirect exposure to using AWS tools or its services. In this section, we will look at some services provided by AWS as a refresher.
The question that comes to our mind is, why bother using services such as AWS? Figure 14.1 summarizes the answer nicely. AWS provides services that are available across different continents of the world and ready to be used by organizations to fulfill their needs. Imagine that your organization has customers across different continents. How much easier would it be to run your application on different continents without having the burden of investing in hardware on each of those continents...