What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

Enterprises want to focus on their core business, meaning data. What they don’t want is to spend time and effort on on-premises data centers dealing with infrastructure duties like maintaining the DC power, cabling, connectivity, andtasks related to the infrastructure components, security, and software patching. They just want to consume the infrastructure as they need, and when it’s no longer needed, why bother about hardware? 

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first ever cloud computing platform, provides a solution to this. Created in 2006, AWS today provides the largest set of cloud services on a cloud platform.

AWS proposes the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model, which means you only pay for what you consume – no more, no less. If you don’t need a resource within AWS, you can release it and simply stop paying for it. 

The cloud computing model is fairly simple and has benefits:

• It trades capital expense for variable expense (no upfront cost/you pay on demand)

• There are massive economies of scale

• You will no longer need to guess capacity

• You will be in the position of increasing speed and agility (no need to wait weeks to deploy on-prem solutions)

• You can stop spending money on maintaining data centers

• You can go global in minutes, deploying apps worldwide in a few clicks