AWS is at the forefront of cloud providers. Launched in 2006 with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon quickly became the biggest IaaS provider.

They have the biggest infrastructure, the biggest ecosystem, and constantly add new features and release new services. In 2015, they passed 1 million active customers. Over the last few years, they have managed to change people's mindsets about the cloud, and now deploying new services to the cloud is the norm.

Using AWS's managed tools and services is a drastic way to improve your productivity and keep your team lean.

Amazon continually listens to its customers' feedback and looks at the market trends. Therefore, as the DevOps movement started to get established, Amazon released a number of new services tailored toward implementing some DevOps best practices. In this book, you will also see how these services synergize with the DevOps culture.