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- [Instructor] Compute Services provide virtual server hosting, container management, and serverless computing. You can set code to run to certain triggers using Lambda, run virtual machines using Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2, quickly set up and run small websites using Lightsail, or create a unit of software to ship out to your users using Elastic Container Services, or ECS. Compute services are backbones of cloud computing platforms, as they provide the much-coveted computing resources that many companies are looking for. Instead of having to host their own servers in their own data centers, they can rent servers from AWS for pennies on the dollar. Storage services provide storage for both in-use and archival files. You can use Elastic File System or EFS, to create shared folders in the cloud. You can upload flat files like images, videos, or text files to Simple Storage Service, or S3, and link to it directly to use on your website. You can also archive files and store large…

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