© Brian Beach, Steven Armentrout, Rodney Bozo, Emmanuel Tsouris 2019
B. Beach et al.Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4850-8_1

1. AWS Architecture Overview

Brian Beach1 , Steven Armentrout2, Rodney Bozo3 and Emmanuel Tsouris4
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
(2)
Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA
(3)
Sterling, VA, USA
(4)
North Bend, WA, USA
 

If you are anything like us, you cannot wait to get started and launch an application in the cloud. But, before we dive in and start launching servers, let’s take a step back and look at the big picture. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a global platform with data centers around the globe. A little time spent on the architecture will help you understand why, and not just what, we are doing with AWS.

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