Introduction to AWS
While talking about cloud services, AWS is one that needs almost no introduction, although few people actually understand how big and complex a system the whole Amazon cloud is. What is completely certain is that, at this time, it is unquestionably the biggest and most used service on the planet.
Before we do anything else, we need to talk about how and why AWS is so important, not only in regard to its impact on the internet but also on any task that even remotely tries to provide some kind of scaling.
As we already have done a couple of times in this book, we will start with the basic premise of the AWS cloud – to provide a broadly scalable and distributed solution that will encompass all possible scenarios for performing any type of workload on the internet.
In almost every other place in this book where we mentioned the cloud, we talked about scaling up, but when we try to describe AWS as being able to scale, we are talking about probably...