Summary

In this chapter, you have discovered one of the critical services on AWS – Amazon S3. This service is popular due to its low cost, durability, and reliability. It allows AWS users to store an incredible variety of data, from archiving through to designing cost-effective data lakes for data engineering and analytics projects.

One key feature of Amazon S3 is its ability to host static websites that can act as the entry point to most contemporary applications. Furthermore, this feature of Amazon S3 lends itself well to designing complete end-to-end serverless architectures, which is discussed later in this book.

In addition to providing storage solutions in the cloud, it is also possible to build private networks in the cloud. AWS offers a feature called Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) that allows you to define and configure private networks, enabling you to separate workloads.

With VPC, you can separate applications that may be running within the same AWS account...