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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 h
by hansmayer 1y 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 1y agoI 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 1y agoFor 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 1y agoYou 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 1y agoAh, yes, servers. I have seen those at Chili's and TGI Fridays!
- rswail 1y agoIt'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 1y agoThis one's great too, thanks.