AWS for Vibe Coders — The 10 Services That Matter
Cut through AWS's 200+ services and focus on the ten that actually matter for building and deploying modern applications.
Open the AWS console for the first time and you will see over 200 services listed in the sidebar. Machine learning, robotics, satellite ground stations, quantum computing. It feels like walking into a hardware store the size of a football stadium when you just need a screwdriver.
Here is the truth: most production applications use about ten AWS services. Everything else is either deeply specialized, targeted at Fortune 500 enterprises, or a niche solution that 99% of developers never touch. Your job is not to learn all of AWS. Your job is to learn the ten services that matter and know enough to tell your AI agent exactly what you need.
The Essential Ten
These are the services that power the vast majority of applications on AWS. We will cover some in detail in later lessons, but here
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