AWS services overview

AWS currently offers over 200 services, across various categories, including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, developer tools, management tools, security, and enterprise applications. The exact number of AWS services will change as new services are introduced. Over the previous eight chapters, you have learned about some of these services and built several applications using them.

The beauty of solutions architecture is that there is no single answer or architecture. It is all about trade-offs. The applications you learned how to build in previous chapters can be built using different approaches and services. In this section, we will study alternative architectures for past chapters’ applications using AWS services that you haven’t seen yet.

Containers

Containers are lightweight, virtualized computing environments that allow you to package and run applications along...