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What is an AWS Resource? Everyone uses the phrase but no one has defined it. The noun, WIKI defines a resource as a source or supply from which a benefit is produced and that has some utility. It then assumes that is enough of a definition and then progresses into classifications of resources. By definition, we agree that "resource" exists as a source or supply or action or strategy. Pretty vague. 1. a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively: "local authorities complained that they lacked resources" synonyms assets, funds, wealth, money, riches, capital, deep pockets, staff, people, supplies, materials, store(s), stock(s), reserve(s), holding(s), supply, reservoir, pool, fund, stockpile, accumulation, hoard 2. an action or strategy which may be adopted in adverse circumstances: "sometimes anger is the only resource left in a situation like this" synonyms expedient, resort, means, measure, method, course, way, scheme, plan, plot, stratagem, maneuver, machination, agency, trick, ruse, artifice, device, tool

we see that we can launch, organize, inventory, list, grow, hire, fire, promote, change them, put them into containers, set them up, provision, update, model them, give them properties and characteristics, build, discover delete, collect, describe individual ones, inspect, enable, govern, export, allow access to, connect, follow, monitor, we are responsible for them, bill for them, secure them, grant access to them, interact with them, attach policies to them, manipulate, deny, compare, collect, associate, configure them.

Nuno Abrantes, Technology strategist | Freelance consultant Answered Mar 16, 2018 The resource is the “thing” the service is “what it does”.

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S3 is a service where you can create a resource. That resource will have a unique Amazon Resource Name also known as ARN that will provide storage and/or static website hosting service.

Charles Grimes, Amazon Consulting Partner, Certified Solutions Architect/Developer, CISSP Answered Mar 13, 2018 · Author has 1.4k answers and 998.3k answer views In one aspect, nothing but semantics

However, you could consider virtual infrastructure (EC2 server instances, RDS database instances, Redshift, DynamoDB, etc) as resources

Other products provided, such as Lamda, S3, SNS, SES, KMS, and a host of others as services since the virtual and physical infrastructure and code that provide the service are completely abstracted.

But, ultimately, it’s a distinction without a difference