<p>Firstly, I apologize for the rather basic question. I am just beginning to learn about Microservices Architecture and would like to get my basics right.</p>
<p>I was wondering if topics such as AWS cloud services/web services imply the Microservices architecture. For instance, if someone is working on an AWS project does that mean that he is using a microservice architecture? I do understand AWS, Docker etc is more of a platform. Are they exclusively for Microservices?</p>
<p>I would really appreciate a short clarification</p>

user92720
<p>No, using a cloud provider does not imply using a microservice architecture.</p>
<p>AWS can be (and is often) used to spin up a monolithic service, e.g. just a single EC2 server which uses a single RDS database.</p>
<p>Utilizing Docker and a container orchestrator like ECS or EKS, also does not mean on its own that one has a microservice architecture. If you split your backend and frontend into two Docker containers that get run on ECS, that's really not a microservice architecture. Even if you'd horizontally scale them, so you'd have multiple identical containers running for both the backend and frontend service, they still wouldn't be thought of as microservices.</p>
