What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. It provides on-demand computing power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.
How It Works in a Real-World Project
When we launch a web application for a client, instead of buying and managing physical servers, we use AWS. We might use:
- Amazon EC2 to provide scalable virtual servers.
- Amazon S3 for highly durable and inexpensive object storage (for images, videos, backups).
- Amazon RDS to run a managed, scalable database without worrying about maintenance.
- Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling to automatically distribute traffic and add more servers during peak hours, ensuring the site never goes down.
Why We Use AWS
We use AWS to provide our clients with a secure, scalable, and highly reliable infrastructure. It allows us to build and deploy applications faster, operate more cost-effectively, and innovate with the latest technologies. By managing the infrastructure on AWS, our clients benefit from world-class security and the ability to scale globally in minutes.
Key Details
- Type: Cloud Computing Platform (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Provider: Amazon.
- Key Services: EC2 (Compute), S3 (Storage), RDS (Databases), Lambda (Serverless), VPC (Networking).
- Core Benefit: Pay-as-you-go pricing, global reach, and unmatched reliability.