Connecting the Pieces: How AWS Services Form Cloud Architectures
Rhome Louie Saringayat2026-06-07T05:47:45+00:00One of the biggest surprises I encountered while learning AWS was realizing that understanding individual services and understanding cloud architecture are not the same thing. Like many beginners, I started by learning services one at a time. EC2 was a virtual server. S3 was object storage. RDS was a managed database. Load Balancers distributed traffic. Each service had its own purpose, features, and use cases. At first, this approach made sense. Understanding individual services is an important part of building cloud knowledge. In fact, every cloud architecture is built upon these individual components. However, as I continued working through cloud [...]
