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

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

⏹️ There are major three fully fledged cloud providers -

⏹️ 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?

⏹️ 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

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - renting a server per hour (from small to huge)
Simple Storage Service (S3) - Cloud object storage service.
Lambda - Which are Serverless Computers
Simple Email Service ( SES ) - a service for sending mail
Simple Queue Service ( SQS ) - for maintaining queue structures.
DynamoDB - Fast NoSQL Key-Value Database
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