In this chapter, you learned that adopting a DevOps culture means first and foremost changing the way traditional engineering and operations teams operate. Instead of being two isolated teams with opposing goals and responsibilities, companies with a DevOps culture take advantage of the complementary domains of expertise to collaborate better through converging processes and using a new set of tools.
These new processes and tools include not only automating everything from testing to deployment through infrastructure management, but also measuring everything so that you can improve each process over time.
When it comes to cloud services, AWS is leading the effort, with more services than any other cloud provider. All these services are usable via APIs and SDKs, which is good for automation; in addition, AWS has tools and services for each key characteristic of the DevOps culture.
In Chapter 2, Deploying Your First Web Application, you are finally going to get your feet wet and start using AWS. The final goal of the chapter will be to have a Hello World application accessible to anyone on the internet.
