What is AWS? AWS Cloud Computing Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 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.
Advantages
Security
AWS security starts at our core infrastructure. Our infrastructure is custom-built for the cloud, designed to meet the most stringent security requirements in the world, and monitored 24/7 to help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data. All data flowing across the AWS global network that interconnects our data centers and regions is automatically encrypted at the physical layer before it leaves our secured facilities. You can build on the most secure global infrastructure, knowing you always control your data and can encrypt, move, and manage retention at any time.
Availability
AWS delivers the highest network availability of any cloud provider, with 7 times less downtime than the second-largest cloud provider. Each region is fully isolated and consists of multiple Availability Zones, which are fully isolated partitions of our infrastructure. To better isolate any issues and achieve high availability, you can partition applications across multiple Availability Zones in the same region. Additionally, the AWS control plane and management console are distributed across regions, including regional API endpoints, which, when isolated from global control plane functions, operate securely for at least 24 hours without requiring customers to access the region or its API endpoints via external networks during the isolation period.
Key Points
Performance
The AWS global infrastructure is built for performance. AWS regions offer low latency, low packet loss, and high overall network quality. This is achieved through a fully redundant 100 GbE fiber backbone network that typically provides multiple terabytes of capacity between regions. AWS Local Zones and AWS Wavelength, in partnership with our telecommunications providers, deliver performance for applications requiring single-digit millisecond latency by providing AWS infrastructure and services closer to end users and 5G-connected devices. Whatever your application needs, you can quickly spin up resources as needed and deploy hundreds or even thousands of servers within minutes.
Global Footprint
AWS has the largest global infrastructure footprint of any provider, and this footprint continues to grow at a significant rate. When deploying your applications and workloads to the cloud, you have the flexibility to select a technology infrastructure closest to your primary target users. You can run your workloads in the cloud to provide the best support for the broadest set of applications, even those with the highest throughput and lowest latency requirements. If your data is beyond Earth, you can use AWS Ground Station, a service that provides satellite antennas in close proximity to AWS infrastructure regions.
Scalability
The AWS global infrastructure allows companies to be extremely flexible and take advantage of the conceptually infinite scalability of the cloud. Customers used to over-provision to ensure they had enough capacity to handle their business operations during peak activity periods. Now, they can provision the amount of resources they actually need, knowing they can instantly scale capacity up or down with their business needs, which also reduces costs and improves customers’ ability to meet their users’ needs. Companies can quickly spin up resources as needed, deploying hundreds or even thousands of servers within minutes.
Detailed Explanation
Flexibility
The AWS global infrastructure provides you with the flexibility to choose how and where to run your workloads, and when to use the same network, control plane, APIs, and AWS services. If you want to run your applications globally, you can choose from any AWS region and Availability Zone. If you need to run applications with single-digit millisecond latency for mobile devices and end users, you can choose AWS Local Zones or AWS Wavelength. Or if you want to run your applications on-premises, you can choose AWS Outposts.
Summary
AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. It is fully featured, and enterprises can use AWS to lower costs, improve agility, and accelerate innovation. Its advantages are reflected in six aspects: security, availability, performance, global footprint, scalability, and flexibility.
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