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most people dont even know aws exists

cubix 11mo ago
Non-techies don’t. Here’s how CNN answered, what is AWS? “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s internet based cloud service connecting businesses to people using their apps or online platforms.” Uh.. yeah.
- hansmayer 11mo ago
  That's actually a fairly decent description for the non-tech crowd and I am going to adopt it, as my company is in the cloud native services space and I often have a problem explaining the technical and business model to my non-technical relatives and family - I get bogged down in trying to explain software defined hardware and similar concepts...
  - cubix 11mo ago
    I asked ChatGPT for a succinct definition, and I thought it was pretty good: “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand access to computing power, storage, databases, and other IT resources over the internet, allowing businesses to scale and pay only for what they use.”
    - hansmayer 11mo ago
      For us techies yes, but to the regular folks that is just as good as our usual technical gobbledy-gook - most people don´t differentiate between a database and a hard-drive.
      - throwaway2037 11mo ago
        You make a good point. This part: > access to computing power, storage, databases, and other IT resources could be simplified to: access to computer servers Most people who know little about computers can still imagine a giant mainframe they saw in a movie with a bunch of blinking lights. Not so different, visually, from a modern data center.
        herewulf 11mo ago
        Ah, yes, servers. I have seen those at Chili's and TGI Fridays!
  - rswail 11mo ago
    It's the difference between connecting your home to the grid to get electricity vs having your own generator. It's the same as having a computer room but in someone else's datacentre.
    - hansmayer 11mo ago
      This one's great too, thanks.
- ghc 11mo ago
  Kudos to the Globe/AP for getting it right: > An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Boston Globe. > On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services.

cubix 11mo ago

Non-techies don’t. Here’s how CNN answered, what is AWS? “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s internet based cloud service connecting businesses to people using their apps or online platforms.” Uh.. yeah.

hansmayer 11mo ago
That's actually a fairly decent description for the non-tech crowd and I am going to adopt it, as my company is in the cloud native services space and I often have a problem explaining the technical and business model to my non-technical relatives and family - I get bogged down in trying to explain software defined hardware and similar concepts...
- cubix 11mo ago
  I asked ChatGPT for a succinct definition, and I thought it was pretty good: “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand access to computing power, storage, databases, and other IT resources over the internet, allowing businesses to scale and pay only for what they use.”
  - hansmayer 11mo ago
    For us techies yes, but to the regular folks that is just as good as our usual technical gobbledy-gook - most people don´t differentiate between a database and a hard-drive.
    - throwaway2037 11mo ago
      You make a good point. This part: > access to computing power, storage, databases, and other IT resources could be simplified to: access to computer servers Most people who know little about computers can still imagine a giant mainframe they saw in a movie with a bunch of blinking lights. Not so different, visually, from a modern data center.
      - herewulf 11mo ago
        Ah, yes, servers. I have seen those at Chili's and TGI Fridays!
- rswail 11mo ago
  It's the difference between connecting your home to the grid to get electricity vs having your own generator. It's the same as having a computer room but in someone else's datacentre.
  - hansmayer 11mo ago
    This one's great too, thanks.
ghc 11mo ago
Kudos to the Globe/AP for getting it right: > An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Boston Globe. > On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services.