Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform that offers security, computing power, data storage options, content delivery and other functions in order to help the business grow. Cloud computing is the idea of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Businesses prefer using cloud computing because they can avoid the large upfront costs of investing in IT hardware and save the time that would’ve been needed to manage the hardware.

“Hundreds of thousands of customers have joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community and use AWS solutions to build their businesses. The AWS cloud computing platform provides the flexibility to build your application, your way, regardless of your use case or industry. You can save time, money, and let AWS manage your infrastructure, without compromising scalability, security, or dependability.” (“What is Cloud Computing? - Amazon Web Services,” n.d.)

Benefits of Cloud Computing:

Trade capital expense for variable expense

- Don’t need to invest in lots of hardware and only pay for the exact amount of cloud computing services you use.

Benefit from massive economies of scale

- Lower variable costs

- Usage is aggregated which allows AWS to achieve higher economies of scale

Stop guessing capacity

- Avoid expensive resources being left idle

- You can access as much or as little as you want with cloud computing

Increase speed and agility

- New IT resources are only a click away

- Allows developers to have resources readily available and dramatically increases agility for the organization

Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers

- You can spend more time and money in growing your business because you don’t need to maintain infrastructure.

Go global in minutes

- You can deploy your application from anywhere in the world

Refererences:

Enterprise IT Applications. (n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2018, from https://aws.amazon.com/enterprise-applications/