What AWS does is easy in the small scale but hard on a large scale. The core tech is about giving you a seemingly unlimited supply of object storage, disks, vir

What AWS does is easy in the small scale but hard on a large scale. The core tech is about giving you a seemingly unlimited supply of object storage, disks, virtual machines and networks to connect and isolate them. This is something a hundred companies have been doing for years but AWS is in the lead thanks to their level of tech that has made the buying of computer resources fast and easy. Simply said: buying basic VM/dedicated machines has been around long enough that it is not a black box for professionals.