Amazon Cloud – AWS Services

Among the most popular Amazon Cloud services are: 

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It provides virtual servers (EC2 instances) for compute capacity. The EC2 offers numerous instance types with varying capacities and sizes, adjusted to specific workload types and applications, such as memory-intensive and accelerated-computing needs. AWS also provides an Auto Scaling tool to maintain instance condition and performance. 
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). It provides scalable object storage for data backup, collection, and analytics.  
• AWS Lambda. A serverless, event-driven compute function that lets one run code for any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. 

Migration to the cloud or cloud-native application development brings many benefits. From ease of use, and excellent support to cost optimization, and greater business performance, to name a few.

• AWS enables businesses and organizations to use well-known programming models, operating systems, databases, and modern architectures.
• It’s a cost-effective service, with flexible billing methods and a rich offering that allows you to pay only for what you use, with no long-term commitments or upfront payments.
• Cloud services eliminate the costs associated with running and maintaining data centers.
• Features quick deployments and cutting-edge solutions.
• One can add or remove storage capacity effortlessly.
• AWS gives you quick and easy access to the cloud with unlimited storage space.
• Total cost of ownership is significantly lower compared to any private/dedicated servers.
• It offers centralized billing and management.

There are also a few limitations to be aware of. AWS provides a wide range of cloud services and computing solutions, but it also comes with some set of limits.

• If you need fast support or a guarantee of strong support, you may have to opt for paid support options.
• Amazon Web Services may encounter some common problems as you move to the cloud. For example, downtime, limited control, and backup protection.
• AWS sets default resource limits that vary by region. These resources consist of images, volumes, and snapshots.
• Hardware-level changes occur in your application, which might not offer the highest performance and utilization of your applications.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a business unit of Amazon, which provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies and governments on a pay-as-you-go basis. 

Cloud computing serves well many different use cases. Businesses, non-profit and governmental organizations benefit from Cloud computing. Amazon indicates the number of active AWS users exceeds 1,000,000.

Amazon launched Web Services in 2002 and Cloud Computing in 2006. As of 2021 AWS offers 200+ products and services, including 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 & notification, and tools for the Internet of Things. 

Small and midsize companies make up the majority of this cloud user base. Research undertaken by private consulting agencies suggests that enterprise-scale is at least 10% of this number (among them Facebook, LinkedIn and Apple). If you are considering a migration to the cloud or a new cloud-native app development project – services in AWS may be perfect for you.