Thinking of starting a small business IT consulting

[CeeBee]

I've been working on learning AWS lately. [...] But instead of building a physical server, I build an EC2 Instance.

There is a new player on the field and it's directly chewing into the EC2 user base... AWS Lambda, server-less web services.. on-demand computing billed to the 0.1 second.
The advantage for Amazon is that they provide the same computing power with fewer resources, no need for some apps to sit on top of an OS multiplied across tens of thousands of VMs.
As a developer I would just setup the app, upload my code to the service and it's ready to serve 1 client/day or 1 million clients per hour, no need to worry about load balancing and adding extra resources ahead of a major national campaign.

[Webhead]

There is a new player on the field and it's directly chewing into the EC2 user base... AWS Lambda, server-less web services.. on-demand computing billed to the 0.1 second.
The advantage for Amazon is that they provide the same computing power with fewer resources, no need for some apps to sit on top of an OS multiplied across tens of thousands of VMs.
As a developer I would just setup the app, upload my code to the service and it's ready to serve 1 client/day or 1 million clients per hour, no need to worry about load balancing and adding extra resources ahead of a major national campaign.

That is so awesome. It's amazing how easy AWS makes everything now. Heck, I can bring up an entire solution with just my keyboard. Gone are the days of doing back breaking work setting up physical servers, etc. Pretty amazing. And this has been around and growing all these years. I'm just now discovering it. I wish I would've jumped on this bandwagon in the beginning.