AWS
AWS is the most popular cloud provider, accounting for about ⅓ of all cloud spend. Almost all our infrastructure client discoveries find they are already using or want to use AWS.
There is a dizzying array of services AWS provides. Many with unhelpful or even misleading names. Here's a short list of essential services we use when deploying container backed web services (a common pattern):
- IAM
- S3
- ALB
- ECS
- Route53
- ACM
- Lambda
- Parameter Store
We encapsulate a lot of the complexity of configuring services (with good defaults) via our Terraform modules.
There's also this 2 minute video which sings through the names of 168 services. Watch at your own peril. 😱