Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s cloud platform. It covers the familiar building blocks - virtual machines, storage, networking, databases, identity, queues, serverless functions, and managed container services - plus a very large catalogue around them.

On this site, AWS usually appears in practical infrastructure work: Ansible playbooks, Terraform providers, container registries, Kubernetes clusters, and older notes from running test systems in the cloud.

The hard part of AWS is rarely finding a service. It is choosing the right amount of service, keeping permissions tight, understanding the bill, and building for failure before a single instance becomes the quiet center of everything.