This document provides an overview of deploying applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It discusses choosing an AWS region and availability zone, selecting appropriate compute, storage, and database technologies, defining application architecture, bootstrapping and configuring instances, and deploying the application. Key AWS services covered include Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Relational Database Service (RDS), and configuration management with Chef. Both advantages and disadvantages of using AWS are listed.