Amazon Web Services
November 12, 2019
By Adam Mears
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
MOST FUNCTIONALITY
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine.
LARGEST COMMUNITY OF CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS
AWS has the largest and most dynamic community, with millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners globally. Customers across virtually every industry and of every size, including startups, enterprises, and public sector organizations, are running every imaginable use case on AWS. The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes thousands of systems integrators who specialize in AWS services and tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) who adapt their technology to work on AWS.
MOST SECURE
AWS is architected to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. Our core infrastructure is built to satisfy the security requirements for the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. This is backed by a deep set of cloud security tools, with 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features. AWS supports 90 security standards and compliance certifications, and all 117 AWS services that store customer data offer the ability to encrypt that data.
AWS COMPUTE
AWS offers the broadest and deepest functionality for compute. Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) offers granular control for managing your infrastructure with the choice of processors, storage, and networking.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- EC2 Autoscaling
- EC2 Reserved Instances / Savings Plans
CLOUD STORAGE
Reliable, scalable, and secure storage for your various data type needs.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- S3 Standard
- S3 Intelligent Tiering
- S3 Glacier
- Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
- AWS Backup
AWS NETWORKING
Get the broadest and deepest set of networking services in the world with AWS. Run applications with the highest level of reliability, security, and performance in the cloud.
- Amazon VPC
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- AWS Client VPN
AWS CLOUD SECURITY – SECURITY, IDENTITY, AND COMPLIANCE
Using AWS, you will gain the control and confidence you need to securely run your business with the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. With AWS, you can improve your ability to meet core security and compliance requirements, such as data locality, protection, and confidentiality with our comprehensive services and features.
- AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Security Groups and Rules
- AWS Directory Service
- AWS Network Firewall
AWS DATABASE
Build use case-driven, highly scalable, distributed applications suited to your specific needs. AWS offers 15+ purpose-built engines to support diverse data models, including relational, key-value, document, in-memory, graph, time series, wide column, and ledger databases.
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon Redshift