This document provides an introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) presented by Patrick Hannah, VP of Engineering at CloudHesive. It begins with an overview of cloud computing benefits like cost savings, scalability, availability and security. It then discusses where to start with AWS, including documentation, concepts of regions/availability zones and categories of services. The document outlines AWS' global infrastructure and breadth of services across computing, storage, databases, networking, developer tools and more. It concludes with best practices like leveraging different storage options and architectures for AWS like lift-and-shift or cloud-native.