By 2005, Amazon had spent over a decade and millions of dollars building and managing the large-scale, reliable, and efficient IT infrastructure that powered one of the world’s largest online retail platforms.
- AWS has been operating since 2006, and today serves hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. Today Amazon.com runs a global web platform serving millions of customers and managing billions of dollars’ worth of commerce every year.
Using AWS, we can requisition compute power, storage, and other services in minutes and have the flexibility to choose the development platform or programming model that makes the most sense for the problems they’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS a cost-effective way to deliver applications.
Here are some of examples of how organizations, from research firms to large enterprises, use AWS today:
- A large enterprise quickly and economically deploys new internal applications, such as HR solutions, payroll applications, inventory management solutions, and online training to its distributed workforce.
- An e-commerce website accommodates sudden demand for a “hot” product caused by viral buzz from Facebook and Twitter without having to upgrade its infrastructure.
- A pharmaceutical research firm executes large-scale simulations using computing power provided by AWS.
- Media companies serve unlimited video, music, and other media to their worldwide customer base.
AWS is readily distinguished from other vendors in the traditional IT computing landscape because it is
- Flexible : AWS enables organizations to use the programming models, operating systems, databases, and architectures with which they are already familiar. In addition, this flexibility helps organizations mix and match architectures in order to serve their diverse business needs. AWS provides the flexibility to easily bring a massive amount of capacity online in a short period of time.
- Cost-effective : With AWS, organizations pay only for what they use, without up-front or long-term commitments. No upfront investment Cost and Pay as you go model saving on the Total Cost of Ownership.
- Scalable and Elastic : Organizations can quickly add and subtract AWS resources to their applications in order to meet demand and manage costs. It is possible to scale up and down the resources based on demand. Elasticity feature of AWS results in effective utilization of resources and cost saving
- Secure : In order to provide end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy, AWS builds services in accordance with security best practices, provides the appropriate security features in those services, and documents how to use those features. AWS environment has been thoroughly verified by security auditors prior to security certification endorsement such as ISO 27001, FISMA, SOC2, etc.
- Experienced : When using AWS, organizations can leverage Amazon’s more than fifteen years of experience delivering large-scale, global infrastructure in a reliable, secure fashion.
Amazon operates state-of-the-art, highly available data center facilities with the help of multiple availability zones within each region. Deploying same set of servers is the best solution for disaster recovery.
