Amazon Web Services in Plain English

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Post by ins0 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 6:35 AM UTC

Amazon Web Services in Plain English
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Post by acre88 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:28 AM UTC

Sad that this is necessary, but glad someone did it. There are AWS services listed here which — when explained this way — I realize I might want to take advantage of.

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Post by eb0la » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:38 AM UTC

acre88 wrote: post #2

Sad that this is necessary, but glad someone did it. There are AWS services listed here which — when explained this way — I realize I might want to take advantage of.

I agree. There are some AWS consultants out there telling you what should order from AMZ. At least the billing is easier.

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Post by byron_fast » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:44 AM UTC

Excellent! You seem to have overlooked "Elastic Block Store" which should be called "Disk".

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Post by ins0 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:48 AM UTC

byron_fast wrote: post #4

Excellent! You seem to have overlooked "Elastic Block Store" which should be called "Disk".

I'm not the author of this article, but i tweeted your suggestion to the guys. Thank you!

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Post by halfelf » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:10 AM UTC

Thanks for sharing. It's feeling like I've just weared some magic glasses for auto translating.

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Post by junto » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:23 AM UTC

What's amazing is the amount of services Amazon offers.

Whenever I look at my AWS console I see these reems of badly named services and I think to myself

   "after I've dealt with the current problem for which I've logged in AWS,
   I might get to figure out what all that other stuff actually is".

However, I never do because there is more stuff to take care of, and since AWS doesn't make this easy to understand, you just don't bother. Now I know that AWS actually has some really useful stuff, and for things I would never have considered using Amazon for, like video processing (Elastic Transcoder), source control (CodeCommit) and OAuth as a service (Cognito).

They just seem to be bad at marketing their stuff. Here's an example: https://www.google.de/search?q=source+code+repository+online...

Why isn't CodeCommit here on the first page of the search results?

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Post by sbt » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:30 AM UTC

So many ways to make your software depend on Amazon.

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Post by timclark » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:34 AM UTC

"It's like: Stacking cash on the sidewalk and lighting it on fire"

Is an accurate description of a large number of products that I have been forced to use after various CTOs have played golf with a vendors sales team.

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Post by JUsr » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:38 AM UTC

sbt wrote: post #8

So many ways to make your software depend on Amazon.

Seems to work for Reddit, Zynga, Dropbox and Netflix.