AWS in Plain English!
Run an App Services No matter what you do with AWS you'll probably end up using these services as everything else interacts with them. EC2 Should have been called Amazon Virtual Servers Use this to Host the bits of things you think of as a computer. It's like http://www.linode.com","It's handwavy, but EC2 instances are similar to the virtual private servers you'd get at Linode, DigitalOcean or Rackspace. IAM Should have been called Users, Keys and Certs Use this to Set up additional users, set up new AWS Keys and policies. S3 Should have been called Amazon Unlimited FTP Server Use this to Store images and other assets for websites. Keep backups and share files between services. Host static websites. Also, many of the other AWS services write and read from S3. S3 in Plain English S3 Buckets of Objects VPC Should have been called Amazon Virtual Colocated Rack Use this to Overcome objections that "all our stuff is o...