What exactly is Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Not just hosting?

[GoodEnough]

I assumed it was just another hosting plan thing.
It seems to be more than that.
Can someone give me some examples of what AWS actually is ?

https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/

 

[purbeast0]

Hosting is just part of it, they offer tons of different services. I'm using them for both hosting and running a backend server using their Elastic Beanstalk and Route 53 services. They also have a database service which is like their own type of noSQL type of db I believe but since it wasn't straight up mongo we opted not to use them.

And that is just 3 of their many services. They probably have like 30 or 40 or maybe more than that. I don't know what the majority of them are for since I don't need them.

 

[agent00f]

It's a pretty comprehensive set of computing services, from virtualization, to storage, to DBs, plus a variety of higher order computational models.

It's basically everything and anything involving computer resources they believe anyone's willing to pay for.

 

[JTsyo]

There was a lot more there than I was expecting.

 

[brianmanahan]

it's the cloud, man

 

[manlymatt83]

It's a platform, more than it is hosting. You do things "their way" and reap the benefits (many substantial!)

 

[Aikouka]

Blizzard uses AWS to host some Overwatch servers. My guess is that they have their own set of servers, but if they need more, they'll just spin them up on AWS.

 

[GoodEnough]

I don't get it. Can you give me some basic examples of why someone needs a platform?
What sort of popular app or website uses AWS?

 

[Kazukian]

I don't get it. Can you give me some basic examples of why someone needs a platform?
What sort of popular app or website uses AWS?

It's servers, this isn't rocket surgery. You have a business, you need an internet presence, instead of building your own server farm, you lease from Amazon.

Good lord.

And just in case: https://vimeo.com/6677828

And I've found this to be a helpful website: http://google.com

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, the whole point of using a service like AWS is that you don't have to set up your own physical server, storage, and network connections.

The company I work for uses EC2 and RDS to host their web, application, and database servers. They also use S3 for remote backup storage.

Almost every large organization uses AWS or a hosting service like it now. Netflix is probably the biggest one, but NASA and Amazon itself are also big customers.

 

[KillerBee]

 

[agent00f]

I don't get it. Can you give me some basic examples of why someone needs a platform?
What sort of popular app or website uses AWS?

If you want some computers & the like to do something, you can either buy or otherwise set them up yourself, or you can pay amazon to do much of the work for you. It's not altogether different than paying a professional to teach kids or whatever instead of figuring it all out on your own.

 

[agent00f]

It's servers, this isn't rocket surgery. You have a business, you need an internet presence, instead of building your own server farm, you lease from Amazon.

Good lord.

And just in case: https://vimeo.com/6677828

And I've found this to be a helpful website: http://google.com

Now you know how others might see you.

 

[GoodEnough]

It's servers, this isn't rocket surgery. You have a business, you need an internet presence, instead of building your own server farm, you lease from Amazon.
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Oh OK, so you mean it's just web hosting.
Got it.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Oh OK, so you mean it's just web hosting.
Got it.

Trolling again? Or just stupid? But just keep thinking that all they do is web hosting.

 

[KillerBee]

There was a lot more there than I was expecting.

That's cool they offer a free account - make your own VPS for free?

 

[Kazukian]

Now you know how others might see you.

Oh OK, so you mean it's just web hosting.
Got it.

Good Enough, my apologies for asking, but do you have some learning disabilities?

 

[GoodEnough]

It's a simple question that has not been answered. What is AWS? web hosting? More? OK, give examples please. Why would you need a server farm? What are "services"? Have you ever explained anything to anyone ever? You sound like you live in a bubble

 

[ultimatebob]

That's cool they offer a free account - make your own VPS for free?

It's "free" for the year, but what you get for that is highly limited.

Basically, you get 1 free "t2.micro" server with roughly 1/2 of a Xeon CPU, 1 GB of memory, and 30 GB of SSD storage. Anything more powerful than that, and they'll start charging you by the hour.

 

[ultimatebob]

It's a simple question that has not been answered. What is AWS? web hosting? More? OK, give examples please. Why would you need a server farm? What are "services"? Have you ever explained anything to anyone ever? You sound like you live in a bubble

Why don't you look it up on Wikipedia or aws.amazon.com and read about it?

 

[ultimatebob]

That's cool they offer a free account - make your own VPS for free?

Oh, if you're looking for a "free" VPS, you might be better off trying the free trials for Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. They offer a $200 or $300 service credit, which you can use to run a small VPS for a few months.

 

[KillerBee]

It's "free" for the year, but what you get for that is highly limited.

Basically, you get 1 free "t2.micro" server with roughly 1/2 of a Xeon CPU, 1 GB of memory, and 30 GB of SSD storage. Anything more powerful than that, and they'll start charging you by the hour.

Thanks - going to have to check it out

 

[KillerBee]

Oh, if you're looking for a "free" VPS, you might be better off trying the free trials for Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. They offer a $200 or $300 service credit, which you can use to run a small VPS for a few months.

even better - Thanks much ultimatebob

 

[Kazukian]

It's a simple question that has not been answered. What is AWS? web hosting? More? OK, give examples please. Why would you need a server farm? What are "services"? Have you ever explained anything to anyone ever? You sound like you live in a bubble

It's been answered several times now, and with links, again, have you ever beeen told you had ADD or a learning disability? One of my stepchildren has several different types and you sound just like her.

 

[John Connor]

I use S3 to host attachments on one of my forums. It's super cheap too. It's like pennies for Gigabytes. At least that's what I see from their calculator. I tried RDS to segregate the database to the cloud, but quickly found out the micro instance was slowing down the site and the database wasn't using an encrypted connection which defeats my use of a server Cert for encryption. Amazon even has DNS hosting.