I am taking careful notes on the incredible AWS course at CBT Nuggets for AWS Technical Essentials. Enjoy the notes for this first Nugget in the course – What is AWS?

• “The Cloud” – specifically the public cloud
• CBT Nuggets, GMAIL, DropBox are all valid examples of common cloud usage today
• Access everywhere
• SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Pool of resources; multi-tenant; rapid provisioning; on-demand (as-a-service); like a utility bill; scalability; elasticity
• Cost effective; easy to “on-ramp”
• Hybrid – part of your usage is in the public cloud while part of it is in your private cloud
• 1995 – Amazon.com; 2006 – AWS; 2009 – RDS; 2011 – Elastic Beanstalk; 2016 – Lambda
• Regulations compliance is also available in AWS

The Quiz Questions – Be sure to post your answers in the comments below:

• Rapid provisioning allows you to very quickly spin up a new virtual machine with minimal effort. True or false?
• As Ben describes it, a hybrid setup is one in which part of your resources are in AWS, and the rest are with another cloud provider. True or false?
• In what year did Amazon release Amazon Web Services?
  • a) 1995
  • b) 2006
  • c) 2016
  • d) 2008