AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides various cloud computing options. It provides certain on-demand resources for hosting web services, storage, networking, databases, and other resources over the Internet with a pay-as-the-user-go pricing system.
Features of AWS-based cloud Infrastructure
Amazon AWS is available in 245 countries and territories, with 23 Launched Regions. AWS is being used by customers across many industries of every size, ranging from start-ups to big enterprises.
Below are some features provided by AWS
- Security
- Availability
- Performance
- Global Footprint
- Scalability
- Flexibility
Solutions provided by Amazon
AWS has many products that are used in many verticals. Some important ones are listed below.
- Analytics (EMR, Kinesis, Redshift, Glue, Quick Sight)
- Application Integration
- AR & VR (Amazon Sumerian)
- Blockchain (Quantum Ledger Database)
- Containers (Amazon EKS, Elastic Container Service)
- Storage (S3, EBS, EFS, AWS Storage Gateway)
- Business Applications (Alexa, Chime)
- Gaming Technology (Amazon GameLift, Amazon Lumberyard)
- Network and Content Delivery (VPC, API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing)
- Compute(EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Lambda, VMware cloud)
Types of AWS EC2 Instances
AWS provides various types of EC2 Instances.
- General-purpose
- Storage Optimized
- Accelerated Computing
- Computer Optimized
- Memory-Optimized
Companies using AWS
There are main companies that are using Amazon Web Services(AWS) for their computing/storage and memory needs. Some of the biggest companies include that use AWS are given below.
- Netflix
- ESPN
- Adobe
- Samsung
- BMW
- Airbnb
- NASA
- Spotify
- Unilever
- Siemens
- Pfizer
- General Electric