• The AWS API/SDK lets you use code to interact with AWS
• You can use it to do "app tasks"
  • Put items in a database, upload files to a bucket, etc
• You can also use it to create app infrastructure
  • Create / destroy a bucket, EC2 instance, etc
  • Create 50 new IAM users
• Anything you do in the UI, you can do in the SDK

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