What is Amazon Web Services?
A simple example: WordPress in five minutes
Part 2: Building virtual infrastructure with servers and networking:
Using virtual servers: EC2
Programming your infrastructure: the command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation
Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks
Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC
Part 3: Storing Data in the cloud:
Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier
Storing your data on hard drives: EBS and instance store
Using a relational database service: RDS
Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB
Part 4: Architecting on AWS
Achieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch
Decoupling your infrastructure: ELB and SQS
Designing for fault-tolerance
Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch.