“Amazon web services” are a set of cloud solutions focused on providing functionalities related to Information Technology (IT) infrastructure for companies.
It has been available since 2006 and since then it has become one of the most popular solutions for bringing the benefits of cloud computing to companies of all sizes.
As is evident, it is a benchmark within its line of business, being one of the most powerful platforms when it comes to helping businesses sell on the Internet.
Among all the services that it makes available to the market, the following stand out:
Cloud storage.
networks.
Databases.
Applications.
Messenger service.
Artificial intelligence.
mobile services.
Informatic security.
Identity and conformity.
Each of these services stimulate the growth of companies. But how does it work? Basically, it does it through a monthly subscription model to connect to the servers where the information is processed, instead of acquiring all this infrastructure.
For this reason, from the point of view of SMEs and start-ups, this solution is ideal.
What can be done in Amazon Web Services?
With a presence in more than 190 countries and territories around the planet, it is undoubtedly a robust platform capable of performing multiple functions, such as:
Application hosting: capable of providing infrastructure to host SaaS projects, facilitating the work of providers of this service, programmers and companies that want a cloud environment to implement solutions.
Backup and storage: with AWS you can backup and save information in the cloud in a simplified way and with high quality standards. It is an ideal platform to recover data at any time, especially for developers, designers and video editors.
Database: through SimpleDB and Amazon RDS it is possible to configure, scale and have databases with a variable size and that can be easily managed.
E-commerce: Considering the high demand peaks that e-commerce has, AWS provides a platform to support this load, in addition to providing an efficient payment interface.
Content distribution: This system offers a high-performance content delivery platform or CDN, capable of distributing and transmitting content with low latency and high data transfer rates.