@awsdevelopers A distributed system is a group of separate computers that talk to each other to do one big job together, like a team building a giant legocastle.
To you, they just look like one super-fast computer....
@awsdevelopers I just wanted to build a simple "Hello World" app.
Two tutorials later, I had somehow provisioned Lambda, DynamoDB, and an S3 bucket with enough redundancy to survive the apocalypse.
It's still running but now i'm afraid if i touch the console now, I'll bring down us-east-1