What is AWS?

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud provider with a 31% market share as of the third quarter of 2024 ( Offered by Amazon Inc. and launched in 2006 ).

Offering over 250 fully featured services for a wide range of technologies and use cases, spanning from computing, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning, and more.

Free tier

AWS Free Tier offers new users free access to a selection of services with usage limits. It includes:

• Always Free Services: Services like AWS Lambda and DynamoDB with usage limitations.
• 12-Month Free: Services such as EC2, S3 and RDS free for the first 12 months.
• Trial Offers: Short-term free trials for services like SageMaker and Redshift.

Why to work with AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has many advantages to choose it over other providers, that makes it the most used Cloud provider in the world.

Broad Range of Services

AWS offers the widest array of cloud services. Its offerings are often more mature and feature-rich compared to similar services by Azure or Google Cloud, giving more flexibility and functionality.

Cost Optimization Tools

AWS offers unique cost-saving options like Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and spot instances, often providing better pricing models for specific workloads compared to Azure or GCP.

Solutions for Startups

AWS has dedicated programs for startups (AWS Activate) and enterprises, offering credits, support, and training that often surpass the initiatives by other providers.

Support and Training

AWS provides extensive resources, from certifications to 24/7 premium support, ensuring a smoother experience for organizations migrating or optimizing their workloads.

Its community and documentation are also larger and more active than other providers.

Most popular services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a comprehensive suite of services, providing scalable, flexible, and secure solutions that are mainly used in 3 specific areas.

• Compute Services: Aws provides a vast selection of instances with Amazon EC2, serverless computing with Amazon Lambda and container orquestration with ECS, EKS.

• Storage Solutions: Aws provides durable, scalable object storage with low latency with Amazon S3, and long-term data archiving with Amazon Glacier.

• Data Analytics: With Amazon Redshift it enables fast querying and analysis of large datasets, and Amazon Athena offers serverless interactive querying.

Successful Apps

Many renowned companies rely on Amazon Web Services to power their applications, leveraging AWS’s vast infrastructure, scalability, and variety of services.

• AirBnb: Through Amazon EC2 and RDS are used for compute and database management, and Lambda on serverless applications for tasks like payment processing.

• Netflix: By using Amazon EC2 for compute and S3 for storage, Netflix ensures smooth video streaming with low latency, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery.

• Pinterest: It uses Amazon S3 to store and manage billions of user-generated images and content. Relying on Amazon EC2 for computing power and RDS for its database.