Has over 165 services

** Ones I've used a lot

Core services

Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Can expand and retract as needed

Virtual server

Elastic Block Storage (EBS), live independently from EC2

Tags not so important

Security Group - little firewalls for each instance

**Simple Storage Service (S3)

Bucket, route resource to which you can add delete and modify objects

trigger events when changes happens

each bucket has a url

simple to host a static website

you can use CloudFront to cache content and prevent latency

Relational Database Server (RDS)

AWS manages this

Takes care of backups, software updates, and instances

You can increase the size and take snapshots of db