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What you need to know to get started with AWS

Nikita Kholin on March 07, 2019

AWS is one of the most popular cloud computing services. AWS is short for Amazon Web Services and boy, they have lots of services. Lots of applic...
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Alex Barashkov

Good article Nikita! Had experience with AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean. Personal feeling - you should use AWS only if you were forced to use it, otherwise pick something better. AWS is a monster, tons of functionality, but wrapped in the interface with totally not a user friendly manner. It was good many years ago, but not all competitors provide much better user experience than Amazon does.

AWS is the service you should definitely obtain the "certificate" to use it

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Nikita Kholin

Thank you! I'm working in a company that uses AWS so I guess I was forced to use it :)
But I have to agree, it has a lot of functionality and not a great UX.

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I guess it depends on what you want to do.

If you want to serverless/cloud-native, you only need a fraction of services.

If you wanna do old school back-end stuff, you need to learn a different and probably bigger set of services to accomodate all your legacy requirements.

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Yash Dusing

Great article! Could you provide more resources and add info for any of the remaining applications that AWS has?

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Nikita Kholin

Thank you! Yeah, there is a one resource I really like — AWS in Plain English. It does not go that much into details but you can get a general sense of what's in there in "plain English".