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Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the collective name for the suite of hosted cloud services that Amazon provides. It offers a broad set of cloud based compute, storage, database, analytics, and application
building blocks that can be quickly assembled in adjustable configurations. Amazon Web Services uses a pay as you go model that includes many options. Some of the main services are:
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- Compute - EC2: Resizable compute resource offering virtual machines on demand.
- Storage - S3: Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web.
- Content Delivery - CloudFront: A content delivery web service. Using a network of edge locations around the world, CloudFront caches copies of static content close to viewers thus lowering latency.
- Databases - RDS (Relational Database Service): Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL database in the cloud.