Amazon Web Services AWS is primarily Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). AWS has a wide scope of different services allowing you to configure entire complex, powerful, secure, scalable and high-available IT environments consisting of private networks, gateways, load balancers, servers, storage, databases, monitoring etc., all virtual and to be set up through configuration wizards or scripting. Moreover AWS provides advanced services like containers, serverless computing, machine learning, message queuing etc. giving you a headstart with those technologies without the upfront platform investments. The scope of AWS can range from hosting a single simple solution like a web server, to a virtual high available hosting facility, fully replacing physical on-site hosting facilities. Also hybrid solutions where AWS acts as a cloud-extension of on-premises IT are possible. Amazon Web Services is one of the leaders in IaaS/PaaS. AWS has set the standard...