What is Amazon AWS?
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AWS is Amazon Web Services. It allows you to rent space in an Amazon Datacenter in terms of CPU performance.
It spawned for two reasons. First, back in the day, there was a dictate at Amazon that everything should be programmatic to allow them to scale forever. You don’t want to have to have Carol from Accounting call Bob from IT every time she needs a new server. Instead, she should just be able to use a Programming Interface (an API) and create her own server.
Second, Amazon was constantly buying an insane amount of hardware to deal with Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. But the rest of the year it was mostly sitting idle. They realized that, since they had written APIs for managing this, and they had so much idle hardware, they could actually resell it and make a profit.
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