Has over 165 services
** Ones I've used a lot
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
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
AWS manages this
Takes care of backups, software updates, and instances
You can increase the size and take snapshots of db