As a massive corporation with often cross competing unsynchronised interests, the sheer volume of services available from AWS is bewildering. Following their internal, open market, their technology is often confusing and sometimes substandard. It is however powerful. Like all powerful tools, you must watch your fingers.

Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platforms consumed on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. These services provide a plethora of basic abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools.