Introduction to Amazon Web Services

Abstract

Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing provider. That is, it provides on-demand access to computing infrastructure (networks, servers, storage, etc.). There isn’t enough time to discuss all of its products, but some important use cases include: • Renting virtual computers you can run code on • Building and training machine learning models using canned routines • Storing and backing up (potentially massive) amounts of data • Creating a database and running queries on it • Hosting websites • Crowd-sourcing human intelligence tasks (tasks computers currently can’t perform)