From the course: Choosing a Cloud Platform for Developers: AWS, Azure, and GCP
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Amazon Web Services
From the course: Choosing a Cloud Platform for Developers: AWS, Azure, and GCP
Amazon Web Services
- [Instructor] Amazon was the first company to make cloud infrastructure available to developers at other companies. This head start allow Amazon to have the largest share of the cloud computing market as of 2019. Two of the earliest Amazon Web Services offerings are still among their most well-known, Amazon Simple Storage Service, S3, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2. S3 is like the developer's version of Dropbox that can automatically scale across millions of gigabytes. S3 is so well used that in the few times when there was an S3 service outage, dozens of popular services, including Airbnb, Medium and Slack also experienced issues. EC2 allows teams to rent machine instances that are analogous to setting up physical machines, but without the physical effort or upfront hardware purchases. If you want to migrate existing on-premises software to the cloud, a basic approach is called lift and shift. This approach…
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