Anyone know anything about AWS?
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Anyone know anything about AWS?
Sfariah D
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Does anyone know anything about AWS? I'm just starting with them but now confused.
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So far as I know AWS provides a warning that you are approaching a distant signal which is set at caution. Wiki article here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Warning_System
AWS also stands for Amazon Web Services. I suspect that is what sfariah is referring to. I haven't used them, though
What do you need to know about AWS? using there services is alot more complicated than say signing up for normal webhosting.
AWS alone can stand for several things.
Do you mean https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ ? With regards to: https://www.daz3d.com/anilip-2
If yes, I would suggest asking Dobit in his thread over here: Click Here.
It probably gives away how much of a complete anorak I am that this was also my first thought.
AMS or the American Walrus Sanitarium was established in 1919, less than a year after the end of World War 1.
EDIT- Please excuse the above mistake... I was informed I misspelled "AWS" above and have decided to fix it by editing it below so the post in which I was informed will not look as loony as whatever I wrote... Thank you for your patience...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled insane post with editing....
AWS or the American Walrus Sanitarium was established in 1919, less than a year after the end of World War 1.
Origially meant as facility where walruses returning from the war overseas could recuperate and receive help coping with the traumas they endured fighting in the trenches of Europe.
By 1924 AWS started accepting sea lions and manatees for treatment and in 1934 the first elephant seal was admitted to the Chicago facility.
By the 1950s there were 12 AWS centers nationwide with headquarters in New York City... in fact the building which would later house the United Nations, was originally intended as the AWS headquarters, but at the last minute was repurposed to house the UN after a Kaiju attack destroyed the Lake Success compound in Nassau county.
By the 1970s the AWS had changed directions and began selling refurbished hotel mattresses and used wheelbarrows... while this was a short lived endeavor, 1978 marked the last time the AWS would ever actually be associated with walruses or any other large marine mammals.
In 1983 AWS was acquired by a French toupee manufacturer and most of the facilities were converted in technopunk nightclubs and ended up being closed down within six months.
In 2008 Amazon purchased the rights to AWS and began operating it as a subsidiary corporation offering Web Services for giant mutant spiders.
I think it's all part of the process of reducing the English language to a series of grunts, so that people are not interrupted from concentrating on their smartphone.
AWS (Amazon) is like Akamai, when the servers are down the half of internet is down.
These servers host many sites and web services.
Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet
It's not just web hosting.
You can rent server time from them. e.g. If you've got a lot of rendering to do, but don't have the hardware, you can set up a virtual PC on AWS and render away while paying by the hour for what CPU time you use.
Sfariah, it might helpp to specify what AWS stands for, that way people may be able to make comments which are actually relevant to your problem.
Speaking of which, I am disappointed in you McGyver. You gave a lot of information about the American Walrus Sanitarium, but you started the post with AMS instead of AWS. As everyone knows, AMS stands for the Amazonian Manatee Society. It's never a good idea to mix manatees and walruses.
Thanks for the heads up...
Sorry, I didn't realize I did that, I always mess up numbers like "W" and "M" because I often tend to write while hanging upside down...
You see, when I was a kid I read an article about how some astronauts were training to eat in zero-G by eating upside down, so I started eating breakfast upside down so I could be an astronaut, but apparently on earth they used to have really high standards about who got into space and who just gets to have cereal in their nostrils...
Unfortunately, the habit stuck and I couldn't get it off, which is why you shouldn't dress up like a nun to steal communion wafers... wait... sorry, that was a different story...
The habit of eating upside domn stuck, and sowetiwes if I'w eating a snack I'll be mriting upside domn... that's mhy occasionally I mill curse in the widdle of a sentence or story, or get cowpletely lost in mhat I was mriting... usually, that's because I've fallen from wy perch... I built it a bunch of years ago for sowe Flying Fox fruit bats mho visit we mhenever they cowe to Nem York... but it's not really as easy to hang frow as the old one I used to have, but
Damn it!
Where was I... ?... So apparently, the priest noticed the gorilla costume and I was only able to grab a handful of wafers before he started shooting...
Sorry... That's not the thing I was talking about... I guess I fell off my perch again... it's still a bit slippery from the morning dew... or squirrel pee... I hate that damn squirrel who keeps peeing on my perch.
Whatever... I was getting coffee in my nose anyway...
So yeah, that's why I always mess up numbers like "M" and "W" and only feel safe with letters like Zero and "8".
EDITED TO ADD... I fixed my original post so now nobody will be confused by what I wrote!
We deal with AWS codes all the time as we manufacture U-Stamp pressure vessels.
Assuming you mean Amazon Web Services, I know enough to know that it's not for the faint-hearted or the inexperienced.
It is an (extremely) large (extremely) complex collection of professional services that is intended to support businesses with significant computing needs. If that doesn't sound like you, there are probably simpler options that you could use, depending on what exactly you're looking for.
I've used various features of AWS at various jobs now (my current job makes heavy use of AWS) and I have a grudging respect mingled with a deep visceral loathing for it. My hot tip if you do have to use AWS is to stay away from the AWS console as much as you can, because it will drive you to the edge of gibbering insanity. I taught myself Terraform so that I wouldn't have to use the console, and -- once past Terraform's own viciously-steep learning curve -- I did not regret my choice.
Of course if you mean the American Walrus Sanitarium, I can't help you. Under the terms of my parole, I am not permitted to have any contact with walruses whatsoever. I would prefer not to talk about the events that led to that, and I'd be grateful if you could respect my privacy on this point.