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Pelaton uses it to power its live leaderboard.
Cerner needs it to power machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Expedia is using it for more and more of its critical apps.
From GE Healthcare to Kellogg's, from Dow Jones to Adobe, companies rely on it to give them speed, flexibility-including to scale up and down quickly-and solutions to specific problems.
It is Amazon Web Services (AWS), which combines cloud hosting with a suite of problem-solving services. Learning how to use AWS and understanding its pros and cons can add a critical skill to your résumé or help you make informed decisions for your company.
AWS hosting is offered for both Windows and Linux operating systems and works with various platforms, including WordPress, Ruby, Drupal, Magento, Joomla, and Dot Net. Scheduled backups, dispersed data center locations, elastic load balancing, and content delivery are among the services offered by AWS.
Amazon's pricing structure is different and more complex than what other cloud providers offer, so the average webmaster may struggle to understand what is needed and what it will cost.
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- Getting started with Amazon Web Services
- Pros and cons, startup costs
- Your business and web services
- Managing the platform, services, and apps
- Terminology
- Search engine optimization
- AWS for managers
- AWS for Amazon users
- Getting published with Amazon Publishing
- Making money with Amazon store services
- EC2 & S3
- Amazon Prime Air, the drone delivery service now in development
- Kindle Fire Tablet
- Tutorials
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