AWS is great, sometimes. It lowers the barrier for us to do really dumb things really quickly.
AWS has a few key intro level concepts:
- Account
- The entity useful for billing in AWS. Many organizations have multiple accounts which can all be managed centrally.
- Service
- AWS is a collection of many many services. These are technologies which Amazon has deployed for our use.
- Common services are Elastic Compute Cloud (aka EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), and Redshift