How AWS cloud is more preferable platform for Companies.

AWS is a growing cloud computing platform that has a significant share of Cloud Computing. AWS is geographically diversified into regions to ensure system robustness and outages. AWS has central hubs in Japan, eastern USA, two locations in western USA, Brazil, Ireland, Singapore, and Australia. There are over 50 services, such as application services, networking, storage, mobile, management, compute, and others, that are easily available for clients.

Accessing data has also become easier as they can do that from anywhere at any time using the Internet.

AWS is short form of Amazon Web Services. Previously, a factory would typically build an electricity plant and use it for their purposes. Then, power experts would manage electricity plants to provide reliable power supply at a very low cost to these factories as a whole. 

AWS cloud follows a similar model where instead of building large-scale infrastructures, companies can opt for Amazon Cloud Services where they can get all the infrastructure they could ever need.

 Amazon had become an expert in handling cost-effective, scalable, and reliable data centers due to their excellent management and delivery of orders.By now, Amazon had become an expert in handling cost-effective, scalable, and reliable data centers due to their excellent management and delivery of orders. So, in 2003, they realized they could use those services as an operating system for the internet.

More than 100 services comprise the Amazon Web Services portfolio, including those for compute, databases, infrastructure management, application development and security. These services, by category, include:

Compute
Storage databases
Data management
Migration
Hybrid cloud
Networking
Development tools
Management
Monitoring
Security
Governance
Big data management
Analytics
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Mobile development
Messages and notification

Availability
Amazon Web Services provides services from dozens of data centers spread across availability zones (AZs) in regions across the world. An AZ is a location that contains multiple physical data centers. A region is a collection of AZs in geographic proximity connected by low-latency network links.

A business will choose one or multiple availability zones for a variety of reasons, such as compliance and proximity to end customers. For example, an AWS customer can spin up virtual machines (VMs) and replicate data in different AZs to achieve a highly reliable infrastructure that is resistant to failures of individual servers or an entire data center.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a service that provides virtual servers -- called EC2 instances -- for compute capacity. The EC2 service offers dozens of instance types with varying capacities and sizes, tailored to specific workload types and applications, such as memory-intensive and accelerated-computing jobs. AWS also provides an Auto Scaling tool to dynamically scale capacity to maintain instance health and performance.

Storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides scalable object storage for data backup, collection and analytics. An IT professional stores data and files as S3 objects -- which can range up to 5 gigabytes (GB) -- inside S3 buckets to keep them organized. A business can save money with S3 through its Infrequent Access storage tier or by using Amazon Glacier for long-term cold storage.

Amazon Elastic Block Store provides block-level storage volumes for persistent data storage when using EC2 instances. Amazon Elastic File System offers managed cloud-based file storage.

A business can also migrate data to the cloud via storage transport devices, such as AWS Snowball and Snowmobile, or use AWS Storage Gateway to enable on-premises apps to access cloud data.

Databases, data management
The Amazon Relational Database Service -- which includes options for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and a proprietary high-performance database called Amazon Aurora -- provides a relational database management system for AWS users. AWS also offers managed NoSQL databases through Amazon DynamoDB.

An AWS customer can use Amazon ElastiCache and DynamoDB Accelerator as in-memory and real-time data caches for applications. Amazon Redshift offers a data warehouse, which makes it easier for data analysts to perform business intelligence (BI) tasks.

Migration, hybrid cloud
AWS includes various tools and services designed to help users migrate applications, databases, servers and data onto its public cloud. The AWS Migration Hub provides a location to monitor and manage migrations from on premises to the cloud. Once in the cloud, EC2 Systems Manager helps an IT team configure on-premises servers and AWS instances.

Amazon also has partnerships with several technology vendors that ease hybrid cloud deployments. VMware Cloud on AWS brings software-defined data center technology from VMware to the AWS cloud. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Amazon EC2 is the product of another partnership, extending Red Hat's operating system to the AWS cloud.

Networking
An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gives an administrator control over a virtual network to use an isolated section of the AWS cloud. AWS automatically provisions new resources within a VPC for extra protection.

Admins can balance network traffic with the Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service, which includes the Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer. AWS also provides a domain name system called Amazon Route 53 that routes end users to applications.

An IT professional can establish a dedicated connection from an on-premises data center to the AWS cloud via AWS Direct Connect.

Developer tools
A developer can take advantage of AWS command-line tools and software development kits (SDKs) to deploy and manage applications and services. This includes:

The AWS Command Line Interface, which is Amazon's proprietary code interface.
A developer can use AWS Tools for Powershell to manage cloud services from Windows environments.
Developers can use AWS Serverless Application Model to simulate an AWS environment to test Lambda functions.
AWS SDKs are available for a variety of platforms and programming languages, including Java, PHP, Python, Node.js, Ruby, C++, Android and iOS.

Amazon API Gateway enables a development team to create, manage and monitor custom application program interfaces (APIs) that let applications access data or functionality from back-end services. API Gateway manages thousands of concurrent API calls at once.  

AWS also provides a packaged media transcoding service -- Amazon Elastic Transcoder -- and a service that visualizes workflows for microservices-based applications -- AWS Step Functions.

A development team can also create continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines with services like:

AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeStar
A developer can also store code in Git repositories with AWS CodeCommit and evaluate the performance of microservices-based applications with AWS X-Ray.

Management and monitoring
An admin can manage and track cloud resource configuration via AWS Config and AWS Config Rules. Those tools, along with AWS Trusted Advisor, can help an IT team avoid improperly configured and needlessly expensive cloud resource deployments.

AWS provides several automation tools in its portfolio. An admin can automate infrastructure provisioning via AWS CloudFormation templates, and also use AWS OpsWorks and Chef to automate infrastructure and system configurations.

An AWS customer can monitor resource and application health with Amazon CloudWatch and the AWS Personal Health Dashboard, as well as  use AWS CloudTrail to retain user activity and API calls for auditing.

Security and governance

AWS provides a range of services for cloud security, including AWS Identity and Access Management, which allows admins to define and manage user access to resources. An admin can also create a user directory with Amazon Cloud Directory, or connect cloud resources to an existing Microsoft Active Directory with the AWS Directory Service. Additionally, the AWS Organizations service enables a business to establish and manage policies for multiple AWS accounts.

Amazon Web Services has also introduced tools that automatically assess potential security risks. Amazon Inspector analyzes an AWS environment for vulnerabilities that might impact security and compliance. Amazon Macie uses machine learning (ML) technology to protect sensitive cloud data.

AWS also includes tools and services that provide software- and hardware-based encryption, protect against DDoS attacks, provision Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and filter potentially harmful traffic to web applications.

The AWS Management Console is a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) for AWS. The Management Console can be used to manage resources in cloud computing, cloud storage and security credentials. The AWS Console interfaces with all AWS resources.

Big data management and analytics
AWS includes a variety of big data analytics and application services. This includes:

Amazon Elastic MapReduce, which offers a Hadoop framework to process large amounts of data.
Amazon Kinesis, which provides several tools to process and analyze streaming data.
AWS Glue, which is a service that handles extract, transform and load jobs.
Amazon Elasticsearch Serviceenables a team to perform application monitoring, log analysis and other tasks with the open source Elasticsearch tool.
Amazon Athena for S3, which allows analysts to query data.
Amazon QuickSight, which help analysts visualize data.

Artificial intelligence

AWS offers a range of AI model development and delivery platforms, as well as packaged AI-based applications. The Amazon AI suite of tools includes:

Amazon Lex for voice and text chatbot technology;
Amazon Polly for text-to-speech translation; and 
Amazon Rekognition for image and facial analysis.
AWS also provides technology for developers to build smart apps that rely on machine learning technology and complex algorithms.

With AWS Deep Learning Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), developers can create and train custom AI models with clusters of graphics processing units (GPUs) or compute-optimized instances. AWS also includes deep learning development frameworks for MXNet and TensorFlow.

On the consumer side, AWS technologies power the Alexa Voice Services, and a developer can use the Alexa Skills Kit to build voice-based apps for Echo devices.

Mobile development

The AWS Mobile Hub offers a collection of tools and services for mobile app developers, including the AWS Mobile SDK, which provides code samples and libraries.

A mobile app developer can also use Amazon Cognito to manage user access to mobile apps, as well as Amazon Pinpoint to send push notifications to application end users and then analyze the effectiveness of those communications.

Messages and notifications

AWS messaging services provide core communication for users and applications. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a managed message queue that sends, stores and receives messages between components of distributed applications to ensure that the parts of an application work as intended.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) enables a business to send publish/subscribe messages to endpoints, such as end users or services. SNS includes a mobile messaging feature that enables push messaging to mobile devices. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) provides a platform for IT professionals and marketers to send and receive emails.

AR & VR (Augmented reality and virtual reality)
AWS offers augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) development tools through the Amazon Sumerian service. Amazon Sumerian allows users to create AR and VR applications without needing to know programming or create 3D graphics. The service also enables users to test and publish applications in-browser. Amazon Sumerian can be used in:

3D web applications
E-commerce & sales applications
Marketing
Online education
Manufacturing
Training simulations
Gaming
Game development
AWS can also be used for game development. Large game developing companies, such as Ubisoft, will use AWS services for their games, like For Honor. AWS can provide services for each part of a game's lifecycle.

For example, AWS will provide a developer back-end services, analytics and developer tools. Developer tools should help aid developers in making their game, while back-end services might be able to help with building, deploying or scaling a developer's platform. Analytics might help developers better know their customers and how they play the game. Developers can also store data, or host game data on AWS servers.

Internet of Things
AWS also has a variety of services that enable the internet of things (IoT) deployments. The AWS IoT service provides a back-end platform to manage IoT devices and data ingestion to other AWS storage and database services. The AWS IoT Button provides hardware for limited IoT functionality and AWS Greengrass brings AWS compute capabilities to IoT devices.

Other services
Amazon Web Services has a range of business productivity SaaS options, including:

The Amazon Chime service enables online video meetings, calls and text-based chats across devices.
Amazon WorkDocs, which is a file storage and sharing service
Amazon WorkMail, which is a business email service with calendaring features.
Desktop and streaming application services include Amazon WorkSpaces, a remote desktop-as-a-service platform (DaaS), and Amazon AppStream, a service that lets a developer stream a desktop application from AWS to an end user's web browser.

AWS pricing models and competition
AWS offers a pay-as-you-go model for its cloud services, either on a per-hour or per-second basis. There is also an option to reserve a set amount of compute capacity at a discounted price for customers who prepay in whole, or who sign up for one- or three-year usage commitments.

If potential customers can’t afford the costs, then AWS Free Tier is another possible avenue for using AWS services. AWS Free Tier allows users to gain first-hand experience with AWS services for free; they can access up to 60 products and start building on the AWS platform. Free Tier is offered in three different options: always free, 12 months free and trials.

AWS competes primarily with Microsoft Azure, Google and IBM in the public IaaS market.

History
The AWS platform was originally launched in 2002 with only a few services. In 2003, AWS was re-envisioned to make Amazon's compute infrastructure standardized, automated and web service focused. This re-envisioning included the thought of selling access to virtual servers as a service platform. One year later, in 2004, the first publicly available AWS service -- Amazon SQS -- was launched.

AWS Services and the AWS Ecosystem
To assess the cloud computing capabilities of AWS we have to first look into the core components of the cloud. There are various components of AWS but we are elucidating on only key components.

Amazon Cluster
Also known as Amazon Compute, AWS has Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and Lambda as the lead computing services. It is due to the virtue of these instances that companies can scale up or down as per their needs. System admins and developers use EC2 instances to get a hold and boot the compute instances in the cloud. The pricing is based on usage. First-time users of AWS get around 750 hours of EC2 per month for the first year. Beyond this, AWS has three pricing models, on-demand, spot instance, and reserve instance.

Reserved instance pricing is where the users are expected to reserve the instance well in advance in the range of one to three years. AWS offers upto 75% discount on on-demand pricing when users reserve the cloud instances.

Spot instance pricing lets users bid on computing instances that are not used. Spot prices differ based on usage, time of day, week or month.

For less human intervention and fault tolerance, AWS ELB distributes the applications widely throughout the EC2 instances. The ELB service is free within 15GB of data processing and 750 hours of monthly service for a year. Larger loads are charged on an hourly basis and each GB transferred.

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Availability
Availability zone (AZ) is an isolated area within a region. AWS provides services from dozens of data centers spread across multiple AZs. An AZ is a location that has multiple physical data centers. Such locations are generally far away from populated areas and are highly secured. Data centers in availability zones are stored to achieve high reliability. In general, a business chooses more than one AZ due to various reasons such as compliance and proximity to end customers.

Storage
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic block storage (EBS) and CloudFront are the three storage choices of Amazon. Storage in AWS is provided through a pay-as-you-go model. Amazon S3 is a storage offering of AWS that can store any amount of storage which is required. It is used for various reasons like content storage, backup, archiving and disaster recovery, and also data analysis storage.

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Along with free EC2 instances for the first year, AWS also offers 5GB of cloud storage and 20,000 GET requests, and 5,000 PUT requests from S3 free for the first year. After the first year, the pricing is $.0300 for 1GB up to 1TB per month. EBS is very helpful in scaling the EC2 instances. Pricing is based on geographic regions like the disk technology used and the GBs of provisioned storage required. AWS CloudFront is a great storage option for developers and business organizations which facilitates low latency and high data transfer speeds.

There are certain types of storage services offered by Amazon. Below we have discussed them one by one:

Amazon S3: Amazon S3 stands for Simple Storage Service; it provides scalable object storage for data backup, collection, and analytics. Generally, data and files are stored in S3 objects, which can range up to 5 GB.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS): It provides block-level storage volumes for persistent data storage when using EC2 instances. Amazon EFS offers managed cloud-based file storage.

Amazon Snowball: Businesses use Snowball to migrate data to the cloud via storage transport devices. Amazon Snowball uses AWS Storage Gateway to allow on-premise apps to access cloud data.

Databases, Data Management
Along with in-memory caching and data warehousing facilities in the range of petabytes, AWS also scales relational and NoSQL databases. DynamoDB is the NoSQL database that offers high-scale, low-cost storage. Using EC2 and EBS, users can operate on their own databases in AWS. Relational Database Service(RDS) and Amazon Redshift are the two database services from AWS.

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To operate and scale MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer or PostgreSQL servers on AWS, Amazon RDS is used. Based on the instance hours and storage amount, RDS pricing is used. Redshift is a data warehouse service through which users can store data in columns rather than in rows. Pricing is based on the instance hours like $0.25 per hour.

Migration, Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Migration: Moving data, applications and other resources to a cloud computing platform is known as Cloud Migration. AWS offers a wide range of tools to help users migrate to its cloud platform. AWS Migration Hub helps manage the migration from on-site infrastructure to cloud. EC2 Systems Manager takes it up from there and helps configure the rest.

Hybrid Cloud: Hybrid Cloud is a mixed computing platform which basically integrates on-site infrastructure, public and private cloud services. AWS has partnered with various companies to incorporate hybrid cloud capabilities for its users. For example, AWS has partnered with Red Hat to bring their operating system on AWS.

Administration and security
AWS Directory Service directly links AWS clouds to on-premises. CloudWatch monitors cloud resources of Amazon Web Services. AWS CloudTrail records API calls for user AWS accounts. CloudTrail does this for no charge at all.

Networking
AWS’s Networking Services offer a cloud platform that is highly secure and connects a physical network to a private VN with a high transfer speed.

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) provides a versatile networking capability in AWS which means that it provides built-in security and a private cloud. VPC comes free with EC2.

AWS Direct Connect Service lets users directly connect to the cloud bypassing the internet. It is priced on an hourly basis.

Amazon Route 53 is a cloud DNS web service, which is highly scalable and available. It is a cost-effective method to route end users to cloud applications by translating the text address into an IP address.

Analytics
AWS Analytics Services offers data analytics solutions on all fronts like Hadoop, orchestration and real-time streaming, and data warehousing. EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is the analytics facilitator which is used by Businesses, data analysts, researchers, and developers to process data chunks. Pricing is done on an hourly basis. Redshift also provides some analytics capabilities.

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Application services
To automate workflow between different services Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) is used. A dedicated queue is present which is used in storing messages. The service is free upto 1 million messages per month and after that $0.50 is charged for every million messages.

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Management and Monitoring
Elastic Beanstalk uses Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python and Ruby to deploy and scale web applications. Application health and log files can be easily monitored.

CloudFormation helps businesses and developers gather and provision important AWS resources. It aids in monitoring these resources in one place to reduce the management time and use that time to develop applications. The developers can manage their cloud infrastructure in a text file or a template.

Amazon CloudWatch is another monitoring tool for AWS resources and customer applications running on the AWS platform. It helps gather and access all operational data in the form of logs from a single interface.

Developer Tools
Developer tools help a user in application source code development, deployment, and automatic running. It updates the server and instance on the workload as well.

AWS CodeStar, as a service, is designed to manage application development in a single place.
AWS CodeBuild eliminates the hassle of physical server management and helps developers in building and testing code with continuous scaling.
AWS Pipeline is a continuous integration service that delivers and automates the pipeline for faster updates.
AWS CodeDeploy is a deployment service that continuously deploys software services to different compute services.

AWS Command Line Interface is Amazon’s own coding interface.
AWS Serverless Application Model helps provide developers with a simulated environment so they can test Lambda functions.
AWS Amplify includes a command line interface, UI components, and a set of open-source libraries to integrate your backend in any mobile or web app.
AWS Developing Tools
Security and Governance
These tools help create a safe environment for the AWS resources through limited user authorizations.

AWS IAM or Identity Access Management is a framework that gives one Shared access to an AWS account and Secure access to AWS services that run on the AWS EC2.

KMS enables users to create and manage encryption keys. It includes a key generation method, which makes digital signs within an application more convenient.

Big Data Management and Analytics
AWS has a lot of applications to support these services, including:

AWS Glue – It helps with transforming, extracting and loading data.
Amazon Athena – It helps analysts in querying data.
Amazon Kinesis – It helps in analyzing and processing data that is streaming.
Amazon QuickSight – It helps in analyzing visual data.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce – It helps in processing huge amounts of data using the Hadoop framework.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service – It helps in monitoring application performance, log analysis, etc. with the help of the Elasticsearch tool.

Artificial Intelligence
AWS offers a suite of AI tools, which includes the following:

Amazon Polly – It helps in text-to-speech translations.
Amazon Lex – It helps with the text chatbot and voice technologies.
Amazon Rekognition – It helps in analyzing images and faces.

Mobile Development
Amazon Cognito and Mobile Analytics are two popular AWS mobile services. AWS Cognito IDs users and syncs data across their mobile devices. Upto 10GB of cloud sync storage and 10 lakh, sync operations per month are free here. Beyond that users are liable to pay around $0.15 for every 10,000 operations.

Usage data within 60 minutes is delivered by Mobile Analytics which tracks applications at scale. Upto one million events usage is free and above that the pricing is $1 for every million.

In addition to the myriad of services that AWS offers, there are also preconfigured virtual machines with already installed and configured software components for quick and easy use like:

Image manipulation
Video transmission or streaming
Application integration with one another
Application performance monitoring
Application security
Billing and subscription operations
Healthcare claim management
Real estate for sale
Genomic data analysis
Website hosting
Customer support

And really, this list barely scratches the surface of what’s available within AWS. In a way, AWS is a modern-day bazaar, providing an incredibly rich set of computing capabilities from anyone who chooses to set up shop, to anyone who chooses to purchase what’s being offered.

Messages and Notifications
AWS offers services to help its users with communication.

Simple Queue Service (SQS) – It is a managed service that stores, sends and receives messages.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) – It helps businesses send notifications to their customers.
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) – It helps in sending and receiving Emails.
AR & VR (Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality)
Amazon Sumerian service offers AR & VR development tools. It allows users to create AR & VR apps without any need of being trained in programming or graphic design. It can be used in:

E-Commerce
Marketing
3D applications
Training simulations
Gaming
Online education
Game Development
AWS also offers its services for game development. Companies like UbiSoft, uses AWS platform to develop their games.

AWS GameLift is a service that lets users host dedicated game servers.

Other Services
The AWS ecosystem has three distinct subsystems:

AWS computing services: Amazon currently provides more than 200 AWS fully-featured services and is launching more all the time. AWS offers extensive cloud computing services.

Computing services provided by third parties that operate on AWS: These services tend to offer functionality that enables you to build applications of a type that AWS doesn’t strictly offer. Many companies and individuals offer services that are complementary to AWS. This enables users to quickly build richer applications.

Applications by third parties that run on AWS: These convenient SaaS services can be used over a network without installing them on hardware. An interesting trend can be seen within AWS. Traditional software vendors are increasingly migrating their applications to AWS and offering them as SaaS.

AWS Pricing Models and Competition
AWS has a pay-as-you-go model. Users can choose to either pay per second or pay per minute, according to their needs and convenience. A user also has an option to opt for a prepaid model where they can reserve an amount of computing capacity or they can take a one year or three year subscription. These are offered at a discounted price.

AWS Free Tier offers users to gain experience with AWS by offering them access to about 60 products for free. There are three offers under Free Tier – always free, one year free and free trials.

AWS’ biggest competitions are Microsoft’s Azure, IBM and Google.

How does AWS work in server ?

You basically need to sign into an account with AWS. This would require credit card details from your part. Upon creating the account you can start exploring AWS Management Console and view their services. Amazon hosts in its site 10-minute tutorials in launching a Virtual Machine with Amazon EC2, using S3 how you can upload files to the cloud and also using DynamoDB how you can create and query a NoSQL database. These are only from compute section, and you can view the same how-to videos on database, developer AWS tools, messaging, storage and content delivery, and much more.

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Why use AWS?

EC2 units give world class performance at an hourly rate and 90% of the time traditional hardware is not used by large corporations. Huge maintenance is required for that kind of hardware which has to be considered also. During peak hours there is a chance that the hardware may not be sufficient in providing competent service. Hence if the organization had shifted to AWS all of these woes could essentially come to an end. Companies needn’t worry over the maintenance and the cost involved with it. No matter how much demand there is, this cloud service can scale to that level. It is also helpful in big data analytics. In AWS code deployment can be achieved continuously as DevOps processes are expertly supported.

Scalability and adaptability of AWS

Scalability and adaptability are some terms which define AWS. Building a business from scratch is tough. AWS lightens the load in this regard as it provides all the tools which the companies can use to get started on the cloud. The cost of migration is low where enterprises can migrate their services from their existing infrastructure to that of the AWS. As we have said Netflix is the best example to this as almost every instance of the company has been migrated to the AWS cloud.

Scalability and adaptability of AWS
As AWS services can be flexibly used, customers need not worry about their computing usage. The usage can be very high or very low and the AWS will scale for whichever way the company wants. This high adaptability is what this cloud service stands for truly.

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AWS’s security and reliability
Compared to a company website that is self-hosted, AWS is more secure. Dozens of data centers across the world are continuously monitored and have a vigilant team watching over it. As the data centers are spread out, a natural disaster or outage at one location won’t affect other data centers. If you think that is bad then consider this.

AWS's security and reliability
How safe do you think the data is if all of it is centered in one location where many people can get their hands on it. This is the case with most of the enterprises. The location of these data centers in the case of AWS is kept a top secret and any issues pertaining to them will be cleared promptly.

Advantages of AWS
Some of the advantages of AWS are:

Ease of use
Cost-effective
A diverse range of tools
Unlimited server capacity
Reliable encryption and security
Managed IT services
Flexibility and affordability
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Applications of AWS
AWS enables businesses of any scale and industry to develop sophisticated applications ranging from hyper-scale web apps to big data analytical apps. Following are some of the common applications of AWS:

1. Storage and Backup – Amazon’s cloud storage is an easily accessible and useful service for businesses. It can store critical data and offers several types of storage to choose from based on requirements. AWS offers file indexing capability, high-performance writing or reading, storage, running critical business applications and archiving.

2. Enterprise IT – Amazon cloud services offer the ideal solution to enterprise IT’s time-consuming pace. AWS allows for fast development, testing, and running of secondary operations in the cloud. It accelerates the project launch and gives it a competitive edge.

3. Mobile, Web, and Social Applications – AWS, unlike any other cloud service, can launch and scale various applications, like e-commerce applications, mobile applications, and SaaS applications. New applications are developed on server-less platforms without the need for any OS and other systems. API-driven code can also be used on AWS for the development of scalable applications.

4. Big Data – The scalable storage offered by AWS is ideal for analytics at higher frequencies. It doesn’t require much space or any effort to index and it’s best for building data lakes or warehouses. AWS and Big Data work well with each other to come up with the power and infrastructure necessary to meet the needs of high-end intelligent software.

5. Websites – Websites can be hosted on the AWS cloud. It is also good for hosting CDNs, DNS, and domains.

6. Gaming – Gaming applications require a lot of computing power as well as the internet. AWS makes it easily available to the worldwide gaming network and provides gamers the best experience in online gaming across the globe.

Companies Using AWS
The pay-as-you-go model is a great benefit for those who can’t afford an in-house infrastructure. Startups especially face this situation. They are usually cash-strapped and seek cloud services to fulfill their infrastructure requirements. Amazon says that the active users of its cloud are over 10 lakh.