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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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Cloud Computing

The delivery of computing services over the internet, including servers, storage, databases, and software on demand.

Identity and Access Management services that control who can access cloud resources and what actions they can perform.

S3 (Simple Storage Service)

An AWS object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

A storage architecture that manages data as objects with metadata and unique identifiers, ideal for unstructured data at scale.

The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share storage, network, and lifecycle.

A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without requiring server management or infrastructure provisioning.

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