Starting from Scratch in AWS
It used to be easy to get started with AWS . There was a single service for computation, storage, and a few additional benefits in early experiments. After more than a decade, AWS currently provides more than 50 services. It might be challenging to take your initial steps. What follows is my suggested strategy if you're starting from scratch on the AWS Cloud and don't have many legacy apps and deployments to contend with. If it describes you, you should read the post that goes along with this one. Do Less to Do More Everything in AWS follows the Shared Responsibility Model. The paradigm asserts that someone is accountable for each area that requires day-to-day operations (physical, infrastructure, virtualization, operating system, application, and data). As you move away from infrastructur e services (such as Amazon EC2) and toward abstract services, the workload shifts toward the service provider (like AWS Lambda). As a user, you want AWS to handle more of the heavy lifting. ...