Chapter 1
Amazon Web Services Philosophy and Design
In This Chapter
Figuring out the cloud
Watching Amazon grow from retailer to the world’s first cloud provider
Understanding the foundation of Amazon Web Services
Introducing the Amazon Web Services ecosystem
Seeing how the network effect helps you
Comparing Amazon Web Services to other cloud computing providers
You may be forgiven if you’re puzzled about how Amazon, which started out as an online bookstore, has become the leading cloud computing provider. This chapter solves that mystery by discussing the circumstances that led Amazon into the cloud computing services arena and why Amazon Web Services, far from being an oddly different offering from a retailer, is a logical outgrowth of Amazon’s business.
This chapter also compares Amazon’s cloud offering to other competitors in the market and explains how its approach differs. As ...
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