• AWS has a few levels of granularity for service management
• EC2 is very low-level. You get full control and can do anything
• These types of services may take a lot of maintenance
• Other services are totally managed by AWS
• You interact purely by API and have no say in how servers are managed
• This can be less flexible but also less work (and money)
• There are some services in the middle that have a degree of management

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