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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 Migration

The process of moving applications, data, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud computing environments.

PaaS (Platform as a Service)

A cloud service model that provides a platform for developers to build, deploy, and manage applications without managing infrastructure.

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

Cloud Cost Optimization

Strategies and practices to reduce and control cloud computing expenses while maintaining performance and availability.

Discounted cloud compute instances that use spare capacity at significantly lower prices but can be interrupted with short notice.

A distributed computing paradigm that processes data near the source of generation rather than in a centralized cloud data center.

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