What is AWS & Should You learn AWS as a Developer?

⏹️What is AWS & Should You learn AWS as a Developer?

• AWS Stands for Amazon Web Services is a Cloud Services Provided by amazon.
• AWS is the IaaS ( Infrastructure as a Services )
• They give you the infrastructure to build your code on.

⏹️ There are major three fully fledged cloud providers -

• Google Cloud
• Microsoft Azure
• AWS - Amazon Web Services

⏹️ Now, Should You learn AWS as a Developer?
For,

⏹️ Front-end Developers :

• There are other many sites that can do it in better way without adding complexity as in AWS.

⏹️ Back-end Developers :

• You still don't have to learn AWS until or unless you work on a project that transfers tons of data continuously.

⏹️ When You Have to Learn AWS?

• If and only if your work - Project - Company requires.
• If you are willing to explore & learn AWS.

⏹️ Just in case if You want to learn AWS :

• So in General You should start with Front-end, Back-end Move to Servers & Hosting learn about networking, Linux.

• Learn a bit about the Command line, Learn about how to deploy a server, how to deploy it on the cloud before you move to AWS.

• AWS is the Universe of cloud services or You can say it is a data center.

• You can not learn every service provided by AWS don't try to learn everything.

• Learn Services that are commonly used in industry

1. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - renting a server per hour (from small to huge)

2. Simple Storage Service (S3) - Cloud object storage service.

3. Lambda - Which are Serverless Computers

4. Simple Email Service ( SES ) - a service for sending mail

5. Simple Queue Service ( SQS ) - for maintaining queue structures.

6. DynamoDB - Fast NoSQL Key-Value Database

7. Identity and Access Management ( IAM ) - cloud security service which helps you to manage users assign policies, and form groups to manage multiple users.

• These services help developers build, deploy, and scale an application in the cloud platform.

⏹️ Companies using AWS :

• Whether it’s technology giants, startups, government, food manufacturers, or retail organizations, there are so many companies across the world using AWS to develop, deploy and host applications.

• According to Amazon, the number of active AWS users exceeds 1,000,000.

Here is a list of companies using AWS :

● Netflix
● Intuit
● Coinbase
● Capital One
● Adobe
● Airbnb
● AOL