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AWS has spare capacity? You get it for up to 90% off.",{"title":721,"path":722,"acronym":14,"category":8,"difficulty":15,"description":723},"State Machine","\u002Fterms\u002Fs\u002Fstate-machine","A state machine is a system that can be in one of a defined set of states, transitioning between them based on inputs.",{"title":725,"path":726,"acronym":14,"category":8,"difficulty":9,"description":727},"Static Hosting","\u002Fterms\u002Fs\u002Fstatic-hosting","Static hosting is when you serve pre-built HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files directly — no server-side logic, no database queries per request.",{"title":729,"path":730,"acronym":14,"category":8,"difficulty":15,"description":731},"Storage Classes","\u002Fterms\u002Fs\u002Fstorage-classes","Storage classes are tiers of cloud storage with different price\u002Fperformance tradeoffs. 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