What exactly is AWS? And how is it beneficial to programmers like Data Scientist? And in what other aspects of programming life could it be used?
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AWS offers a lot more than just “servers you can use”; there are tons of server providers out there.
One of their biggest selling points is the services they provide on their cloud platform. This stuff can be pretty abstract for people not familiar with developing web services, but there are certain common functions that many applications need to use, like storing files, passing them between apps, handling long queues of data that are coming from many sources and may be processed at many endpoints, etc.
AWS offers a platform that does a lot of those common tasks more efficiently, securely, and with better scaling than most developers could accomplish in-house. This saves developers time coding routine stuff for their apps, because they can just pass that stuff off to the cloud which will do it more reliably anyway.
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