I want to get started with amazon web services simply to stream books searched for through a custom web site not yet deployed. So I want to create a free account, but I see they have all these other services like cloud, etc. that they may try to rope you in… I just want to use the web service, is there a test web service for applications currently running on localhost, that will only use the web service portion? Or do I create the account and provide no current business info? Or how does this work?
I guess my confusion is also that Amazon offers so many services, and I don’t understand what each of them is for too… and what I should be looking at.
Thanks.
You just create an account. There is no current business info to provide.
Yeah, you need a credit card.
However, nothing ever gets charged, unless you actually use one of these services. In my experience these are all extremely cheap to try out and get started with (see AWS Simple Monthly Calculator)
You probably just want to use S3 (for serving static files – with the option of torrenting t
hem (!)) or EC2 (for temporary (auto) scalable webservers machine instances