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5. Developing on AWS

Ryan Pothecary1  
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Tonyrefail, UK
 

AWS has always been a welcoming home for developers. AWS’s first prelaunch services were aimed solely at the development community. Who else has a use for a scalable queuing service if not developers? And have you wondered why Amazon S3 is an object storage service rather than block based like traditional storage solutions?

AWS was designed to make life easier for developers.

From being entirely API driven to creating disruptive services like AWS Lambda which has gone on to form the basis of an entirely new form of IT solution: Serverless Computing.

In its Management Console today, there ...

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