Amazon Web Services are a set of services that provide programmatic access to Amazon’s ready-to-use computing infrastructure. The robust computing platform that was built and refined over the years by Amazon is now available to anyone who has access to the Internet. Amazon provides several different Web services, but this series will focus only on the basic building block services that fulfill some of the core needs of most systems: storage, computing, messaging, and datasets.
Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services, Part 1: Introduction
July 29, 2008