For predictable workloads, you can invest in or Savings Plans . This commitment can save you up to 72% compared to standard on-demand pricing. Pay Less by Using More
S3 has become so foundational that its API has been widely adopted by other cloud providers and on-premises storage systems as a de facto standard.
The story of AWS is a masterclass in turning internal pain points into business opportunities. In the early 2000s, Amazon’s retail engineering team was struggling. Every time they launched a new feature (like "Recommendations" or "1-Click ordering"), they had to request new infrastructure, which took months to provision.
: A fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from leading AI startups and Amazon available via an API. For predictable workloads, you can invest in or
For developers, offers the "path of least resistance." You start with Lambda for a simple API. When that API gets heavy, you move to Fargate. When you need persistent storage, you use DynamoDB. Every step of the scale-up ladder is managed natively within the AWS console without vendor lock-in feeling like a trap—because every upgrade path is a first-party service.
But wins on everything else . For the generalist enterprise—the retailer, the bank, the manufacturer— AWS offers the most services (over 240+) and the most mature tooling. While Azure struggles with documentation sprawl and Google struggles with enterprise sales support, AWS offers a boring, reliable, fortress-like stability that CFOs adore.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. It offers over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—use AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. The story of AWS is a masterclass in
AWS is the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com, launched in 2006 to provide IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services, now commonly known as cloud computing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, organizations access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from AWS.
Minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads, focusing on energy consumption and efficiency across the entire shared responsibility model. Security and the Shared Responsibility Model
The poster child for AWS. Netflix uses AWS for almost everything: streaming video (S3/CloudFront), recommendations (EC2/DynamoDB), and transcoding (Lambda). They famously use "Chaos Monkey"—a tool that randomly kills servers in production to ensure they are resilient. : A fully managed service that makes foundation
High-performance block storage designed for use with Amazon EC2 instances for throughput and transaction-intensive workloads.
If you run your app in three Availability Zones, even if one data center loses power or gets hit by a natural disaster, your app stays online. AWS has 33 launched regions and 105 Availability Zones, with more on the way.
Provides block-level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. C. Databases