What is Amazon Web Service (AWS)? Benefits

The AWS is nothing but an infrastructure service provided by Amazon. It’s a revolutionary change because it allows you to develop an application without worrying about hardware, network, database and other physical infrastructure you need to run your application.

For example, if you want to develop an online application for your business, you need a lot of servers, database, and other infrastructure.

You need to rent a data center, buy servers, routers, database, and other stuff to get the start, which is pain and pose a big hurdle for many entrepreneurs. AWS solves that problem by renting their infrastructure and servers with a nominal cost of what you incur in setting up yourself.

Amazon has built many data center around the world to support their core business i.e. the E-Commerce business which powers Amazon.com and AWS just emerge from that.
AWS allows Amazon to monetize its massive infrastructure by renting out to people and business who needs that.

It created the phenomenon of Infrastructure as Service because now you only need to pay for infrastructure you are actually using.
For example, if you set up your own data center and buy 10 servers and 10 databases but end up using only 5 of them then remaining are waste of money and they also cost in terms of maintenance. With Amazon Web Service, you can quickly get rid of them.
Similarly, you can scale pretty quickly if you are hosting your application on cloud i.e. on Amazon Web Service.

If you see that your traffic is increasing then you can quickly order new servers and boom your new infrastructure is ready in hours unlike days and months with the traditional approach.
You also don’t need to hire UNIX admins, Database Administrator, Network admins, Storage guys etc, All that is done by Amazon and because Amazon is doing it in a scale, it can offer the same service at much lower cost.

Why do we need AWS?
AWS also provides VPC, which can be used to host our services on a private network which is not accessible from the internet, but can communicate with the resources in the same network. This restricts the access to the resources such that any ill intentioned user from the internet.

What can AWS do?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. Learn more about AWS Products available in the Cloud.

How does AWS cloud work?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides virtual servers — called instances — for compute capacity. … The Amazon EC2 Container Service and EC2 Container Registry enable customers to work with Docker containers and images on the AWS platform.

what companies use aws?

15 high profile companies that run on top of Amazon Web Services

Netflix
NASA
Expedia
Slack
Samsung
Nokia
Adobe….