Basics for working with AWS

AWS is a cloud provider that manages the infrastructure for cloud applications. The other big players are Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Each of them is equipped with many diverse solutions for managing a variety of artifacts, such as the following:

• Applications
• Databases
• Message queues
• Network
• Docker image management
• Event buses

There are multiple types of managed services for running applications. We'll discuss a few in the next section.

Managed services for applications from AWS

An application should be hosted on a cloud server to serve an API to the public internet. That server can be an independent machine or a container. AWS provides a standalone server called a virtual...