AWS
Cloud infrastructure that scales with real traffic, not guesses
What It Is
AWS is Amazon's cloud computing platform compute, storage, databases, networking, and dozens of managed services available on demand instead of racked in a data center you own. It's the infrastructure layer most production systems we build run on, whether that's a handful of services or a full container orchestration platform.
Why It Matters
Cloud infrastructure is easy to get running and easy to get wrong an over-permissioned IAM role, an unencrypted S3 bucket, or a single-instance deployment with no failover are common ways a system that works in a demo fails in production. The value of AWS isn't just elasticity, it's the depth of managed services available to avoid rebuilding solved problems from scratch.
How TieTech Uses It
We provision AWS infrastructure as Terraform code rather than clicking through a console, so every environment is reproducible and every change is a reviewable diff the same approach documented in our cloud infrastructure portfolio project and DevOps case study, covering compute, object storage, managed databases, and networking behind a CDN and load balancer.
