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AWS Intro

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Summary

AWS Cloud Essentials introduces Amazon Web Services as the world's largest cloud computing service provider for startups and large corporations. In this lesson you'll learn what AWS is, why the cloud was chosen, and what services you'll be learning more about. This initial description became the foundation before we went into technical topics like EC2 and S3.

Key points

AWS is a public cloud platform owned by Amazon with hundreds of services.
The cloud replaces the purchase and maintenance of the physical server itself
The main services studied: computing, storage, networking, databases
AWS reaches users from individuals to global corporations

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