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What is AWS (Amazon Web Services)?

The world's largest cloud computing platform, offering hundreds of services for compute, storage, networking, and more.

Amazon Web Services is the market-leading cloud provider with the broadest set of services and the largest global infrastructure footprint. Founded in 2006, AWS pioneered the Infrastructure-as-a-Service model. Core services include EC2 (virtual servers), S3 (object storage), RDS (managed databases), Lambda (serverless functions), and EKS (Kubernetes). AWS operates in multiple geographic regions with availability zones for redundancy. It serves millions of customers from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, governments, and nonprofits.

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Region and Availability Zone

Geographic locations where cloud providers operate data centers, with zones providing redundancy within a region.

Cloud Storage Tiers

Different storage classes offered by cloud providers, optimized for varying access patterns from frequent to archival use.

CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

A software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages instead of YAML or JSON templates.

Kubernetes Namespace

A virtual cluster within a Kubernetes cluster that provides scope for names and enables resource isolation between teams or environments.

An AWS service that provisions and manages cloud resources using declarative JSON or YAML templates.

Serverless Computing

A cloud execution model where the provider manages servers and dynamically allocates resources, charging only for actual usage.

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