Amazon is an amazing eCommerce website. It started with selling books online and now it is one of the largest online shopping website in the world. It has its branches around the world which caters particularly to that country. And in the process, it needed to had lot of data centers for obvious reasons to handle its mammoth web traffic. With flow of time, what they must have understood is that data management is growing fast and their expertise to help handle their own traffic load could help others. This is what I think could be the reason why they came up with this cloud services in the name of Amazon Web Services, shortly known as AWS.
AWS Cloud Services
Basically, Amazon's AWS provide virtual hosting or computing services to end users. You can use their powerful computers resources in the cloud to process your data or use can simply use their services to host your websites and applications. Besides, their services can also be used as contend delivery network (CDN) to quickly serve your web traffic/visitors from their nearby locations, reducing the latency. In the upcoming post we will talk about Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center locations as well. But for now, let me focus on its services only. The best thing about AWS is that you can both scale your subscription of their services based on your need.
Some of the popular services from AWS includes:
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon Cloudfront
- Amazon Simple Storage service
- AWS identity and Access Management
- Amazon Relationa Database Service (RDS)
- AWS Command Line Interface
Don't get confused. There are more services than simply what I have listed above. It's not possible to list out each and every services of Amazon AWS. So, I highlighted only popular services from AWS. Gone are the days when you looked out for data centers to lease a colocation space so that you can have your own dedicated machine to handle your large size traffic. Today, with cloud services like AWS, you can simply purchase their services and scale based on your need.
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