Introduction
If you want to make smart choices about how your organization is going to use Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform, you’ll first need to properly understand it. To get there, you’ll need to figure out just what the cloud is, what technologies it’s built on, what kinds of cost savings and operational advantages it can bring you, and how cloud-based applications work differently than their traditional cousins.
This chapter will introduce you to the basics. The rest of the book will fully flesh out the details.
