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What is AWS?

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What is AWS?

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- [Narrator] Before I even knew what the cloud meant or what cloud computing does, I had heard of AWS and knew that it was a big deal in the tech industry. It took only a quick Google search to find out that AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. From the name, I surmised that it was an Amazon product. I was however, completely unprepared for the extent of the types and number of services AWS provided for organizations all over the world. AWS offers IT infrastructure services to businesses and organizations as web services to help them scale and grow efficiently. AWS provides what used to be purchased as hardware, such as network switches and servers, as resources to be accessed using the internet. Because of cloud computing's pay as you go model and robust resources, organizations are able to save time, money, and human resources by moving their resources to AWS. As of winter 2020, there are 24 groups of services offered by the platform ranging from compute to storage to game…

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