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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)renting a server per hour (from small to huge)Amazon Elastic MapReducerenting a couple of servers per hour as an hadoop cluster (to crunch a lot of data)Auto Scalingrenting just enough servers as necessary (using more with a lot of work, using less with less work)Amazon CloudFrontsomething like Akamai offers (CDN, content distribution network) but for less moneyAmazon SimpleDBnoSQL for key-value store. store huge lists of items consisting of attributes that are quickly searchable.Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)MySQL as a Service (maas :P ) one of the best services of AWS at this moment.AWS Elastic Beanstalkinfrastructure automation for java applications. works with tomcat, uses services like autoscaling. (turn-key solution, perfect for getting familiar with several AWS services.)AWS CloudFormationinfrastructure orchestration. write recipes for different services you want to use, and how, and CloudFormation will do the rest.Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (FWS)have a shop? you can have Amazon manage your fulfillment. your suppliers ship to Amazon, and they ship to your customers.Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)'first in, first out' (in nature) messaging. perfect for jobs that should be processed asynchronously, more or less in order of arrival. think of video rendering or thumbnail generation.Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)publish/subscribe mechanism. you create topics interested parties can subscribe to. sending a message to a topic, sends the message to all subscribers. (like a mailing list, but for software systems.)Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)a service for sending mail. interesting is that you have to earn your quota with good behaviour. interesting way of minimizing spam.Amazon CloudWatchmonitoring of many AWS assets, like instances (servers) and load balancers.Amazon Route 53DNS (really rocks)Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)extend your private network with 'some cloud'.Elastic Load Balancingdistributing traffic over one or more instances (servers).Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS)would like to use it, not available for everyone in the world.Amazon DevPaysame here.Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)the most revolutionary service in AWS. unlimited storage.Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)network disks for AWS. (attach a volume to an instance of your choice. you can't share the disk between multiple instances.AWS Import/Exportmove large data in and out of S3AWS Premium Supportsupposed to help you out with problems for money.Alexa Web Information Servicesearch, i thought.Alexa Top SitesDisplay top sites from Alexa.com in your application.Amazon Mechanical Turkwork by the task. you want to have 10,000 users visit your site and try to do something. put those tasks on mechanical turk (for $0.1 per task?) and any one can help you.thanks, Mitch Garnaat for pointing out we missed:Identity and Access Management (IAM)which lets you provision users within your AWS account and grant them access to different services and resources.

I’ve been asked to answer this question. This is not a particularly important issue for me, but I do have a general opinion — which I’m very open to education and argument on. If the Congress of Quora convened and this were the issue before us, what follows is what I’d propose.Here’s a map of all Federally-owned land:As you can see, there’s a LOT of Federally-owned land in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. I don’t see any reason that the amount of Federally controlled land in the West shouldn’t look more like the amount of Federally controlled land in the East. I have a general bias — where possible , practical, and sensible — toward subsidiarity and local control.Let’s get Department of Defense land (blue on the map) out of the way. National defense is a core Federal function. While worth reviewing to see if anything can be turned over, we already have the Base Realignment and Closure process for that. Let the holdings and processes stand as they are.The main set of Federal land I’m interested in handing over to state control is the more than 247.3 million acres (1,001,000 square kilometers) that is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (yellow on the map). Let the states fight with ranchers about grazing rights and deal with the trade-offs of mineral extraction rights. If there’s a way to auction the BLM land off to private ownership in a fashion that’s subject to state regulation after transfer and the revenue from the auction of assets goes to paying down the national debt (and stopping the borrowing from Social Security funds), I’d be even more interested.I feel significantly more protective of the land controlled by the Forest Service (light green on the map). Maybe it’s because I’ve read The Lorax to my five year old daughter three times in the past five days, but I see trees as a national strategic asset in service of breathable air and climate change mitigation. Given the global scope of the challenges, the economic implications, and the national security implications, I think there’s a much better case for ongoing Federal administration.The Bureau of Indian (that is, Native American or Indigenous Peoples) Affairs (red on the map; don’t look at me that way fellow Lefties — I didn’t pick the colors) is a wholly different discussion. To be clear: the reservation land gets left intact as largely self-governing, sovereign entities. I’m rather underinformed in terms of the history of laws, treaties, and policy in this domain, so my instinct is to leave the entire matter alone. One thing I’m compelled to wonder about, though, is whether it makes any sense to explore converting the reservations — at least the largest ones — into their own stand-alone U.S. states, complete with Congressional representation and the rights afforded by statehood. The reservations are already self-governing, so the hurdles in Section 3 of Article IV of the Constitution wouldn’t be an insurmountable obstacle. That said, there could be any number of good reasons not to — not least of which might be Indigenous Peoples not being interested in engaging with the institutions of government that killed their ancestors and drove them off the land they occupied prior to European colonization in any fashion but the treaties in place. So, yeah… likely leave the whole category alone.The Fish and Wildlife Service (orange on the map), I’m mostly in favor of leaving alone on principle (human beings aren’t the only creatures inhabiting this planet)… but there is a big, huge, someone-may-revoke-my-Liberal-card asterisk: Alaska. I’m rather tired of fighting about the Arctic National Wildlife Reguge (ANWR) and the other vast swaths mostly set aside in the 1970s and 1980s. My first priority would be protecting the established and settled land claims for the Inuits (which seem to be managed differently than other Indigenous Peoples). Some land might get turned over to the Forest Service. If some additional National Parks need to brought into the National Park System, let’s do that on a limited basis. Beyond that, the FWS controls comparatively small amounts of land in the Lower 48, so why so much up there? Alaskans seem quite committed to preserving a wilderness-focused style of life, and I’m content to let them do that. I don’t live there.I’d leave the National Parks (dark green) under Federal control. A big part of that is for the same reasons that I’d leave Forest Service land — which surrounds many National Parks — alone. Furthermore, despite their prominence in such discussions due their familiarity, they don’t actually constitute that much land. I also have to imagine that states are mostly content to have the National Park branding as a tourist draw, since whole local economies now exist around them. I’ve been to quite a few of them in my life, each with their sights to behold. My default stance is to preserve them.

It doesn’t have enough original content. People don’t wanna wait until August for Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. We need more revivals. If shows like Girl Meets World, Andi Mack, or Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger were to come back, that would be awesome. The latter would fit in perfectly with FWS and WandaVision, especially if Mister Negative as the villain brings Spider—Man and Black Cat into the MCU TV world. And yes, I know Andi Mack just ended and Buffy and Jonah have moved on, but Andi doesn’t need them. As much as I loved Buffy, I felt cheated when she didn’t actually move in season 3. We need the new-school Andi, with new characters, but keeping Cyrus in the main cast. I loved Cyrus.