AWS (Amazon Cloud Hosting) - what is the practical difference from a regular Ubuntu VPS?

Question

Amazon Web Services

Hello.
Tell me, are there any fundamental differences when working with an AWS cloud host compared to a regular VPS under Ubuntu?
I don't mean all this talk about "expansibility" and "instances" (I frankly got bogged down in it, trying to understand), namely, real actions.
For example, I need to raise LAMP and make a website on it - the host provider gives me root access to ssh (or even vnc without a system) and go!)) I do what I want)
Is it the same on AWS? Or is there a fundamental difference?
Thank you.

Answer 1

AWS (and other similar providers) provide you with more than just a "virtual machine". This is an opportunity to fully manage the virtual infrastructure of the project - IAAS (well, a pack of SAAS, of course, too)
If your project is one virtual machine, then AWS is too much
for you If you have a project with a complex infrastructure, for example:

• a separate load balancer (whatever you like, Linux) on the public network
  
• application on IIS in a non-public network
  
• multiple microservices
  
• queues to bundle it all
  
• I want to test in one place and prod so that it does not fall at the same time
  
• ...
  

That's when the advantages of AWS for managing the infrastructure of the project come out, and until that moment - both on VPS and in AWS: you have a virtual machine under ubuntu, you connect via ssh and wrap ...