Introduction
Since 2005, when Amazon formally launched its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web service, cloud computing has grown from a developer service to mission-critical infrastructure. The spectrum of applications is broad—most highly scalable consumer platforms such as Netflix are based on AWS, and so are many pharmaceuticals and genomics, as well as organizations such as the BBC and The Weather Channel, BMW, and Canon. As of January 2020, there are about 143 distinct AWS services spanning 25 categories, from compute and storage to quantum technologies, robotics, and machine learning. In this book, we will cover a few of them, as shown in the following diagram:
Figure 2.1: Amazon AI services covered
S3 is the versatile object store that we use to store the inputs to our AI services as well as the outputs from those services. You have been working with S3 since
Chapter 1, An Introduction to AWS.
