[davidgatti]

I agree 100%, this description are to simplistic - at the beginning the article should have a warning saying, that this view on what AWS has to offer is just for beginners to help them structure AWS in their heads, but then they should dive deep on their own. For example the S3 mentioned above.

It is nothing like an FTP. It is more of a database than a file storage now days. You can literally now use SQL to query data stored in S3 (S3 Select), and S3 is literally used as a database when you store JSON or CSV files. Which if this is all you have the costs are virtually non existent - but no body thinks about S3 this way. I personally had countless clients and developers use it as a FTP and be scared to make thousands of queries a sec - thinking they are dealing with a hard drive.

This type of thinking limits you for no good reason.

Yes, AWS is wast and complicated - and sure you need a starting point - but you need to be careful when you try to simplify AWS to much, because you'll limit yourself and other from taking advantage of what AWS can actually do for you.