title: Using AWS S3 and DynamoDB to make an instagram clone instead of Parse
body: <p>I am trying to consider AWS as an option now that Parse is shutting down. </p>
  
  <p>My question is when creating a social network, similar to instagram, AWS S3 for photo/video storage combined with DynamoDB for the database (friend connections, URL reference to photos in S3) would be a viable choice? Are these two products together roughly equivalent to what Parse offers? </p>