What this Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s largest cloud computing service provider and web services division of Amazon.com that is leading in innovation. AWS has global infrastructure and software services operated in 21 different locations worldwide which makes it the leading cloud provider.
This article will present a number of reasons why one should gravitate and use Amazon Web Services. Here are the benefits for using AWS.

1.       AWS is cost effective
2.       AWS is Available Globally
3.       AWS provides efficient IT Operations
4.       AWS offers a Rich Service Ecosystem
5.       AWS is the leading Cloud Service Provider
6.       AWS drives Innovation
7.       AWS Aligns with Future Technological Advancements within an Organization
8.       AWS Provides Business Agility
9.       AWS drives your Career
10. AWS Free Tier

Amazon is Cost Effective

AWS provides on IT resources with a pay as you go pricing strategy. Using AWS offers cost savings where costs contributing to data centers or physical infrastructure is reduced significantly so much so that costs are only associated to the resources which are used/ consumed.

AWS offers a pay as you go pricing model where you only pay for the tools and services that is needed and for the duration of its usage. Additionally, the cost and time for system administration is wiped out. Therefore, for any long-term investment, it is cost effective compared to having in house infrastructure.

AWS is Globally Available

AWS is currently present in 26 geographic locations. Each region has multiple data centers known as availability zones. AWS currently has 84 availability zones, and they are planning to add 24 more availability zones across 8 regional locations in the world. This clearly signifies that AWS has global infrastructure.

One major advantage of AWS global reach is services are available locally, which results in lower network latency and improves application performance and user experience. And to make it even better, these applications can be made available or duplicated in other regions within minutes.

AWS simplifies Enterprise IT Operations

The cost of traditionally provisioning servers, managing in house data centers or simply administering to IT resources is time consuming.

AWS makes resource provisioning easier and by extension ongoing operations simpler. AWS is now responsible for the building, IT infrastructure, power, networking, physical servers etc., where IT operations is drastically reduced. In other words, AWS provides Managed IT Services which is readily available and makes IT operations far simpler and easier.

AWS offers a Rich Service Ecosystem

Firstly, AWS offers a wide range of services which includes but not limited to the following: