Summary

Throughout this brief introduction to AWS, we learned not only about the background and industry shift that started the movement into utility computing, but also where AWS fits into it. We touched on the kinds of problems AWS can solve and where its services are competitive. There are countless unique processes to be solved with this ever-growing environment. Picking up consistent patterns throughout this book will help you strengthen products of many forms and protect against risk. In the following chapters, we'll go over some of the core services that are used to create basic design patterns. These patterns will be used to deliver more complex architectures using DevOps and data best practices in the DevOps Patterns and Persistence Patterns sections.