Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. It offers over 200 fully featured services, including computing, storage, databases, analytics, and more, from data centers globally. AWS provides a pay-as-you-go model, allowing users to access IT resources on demand and scale their infrastructure as needed. It is used by various organizations, from startups to large enterprises and government agencies, to lower costs, increase agility, and innovate faster. 

• What it is:

  AWS is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand IT infrastructure services via the internet. It offers a variety of services that can be used to build, run, and scale applications and infrastructure. 

   
• What it offers:

  AWS provides a broad range of services, including:

  • Compute: Virtual machines (EC2), serverless functions (Lambda), and containers (ECS, EKS). 
     
  • Storage: Object storage (S3), block storage (EBS), file storage, and archive storage. 
     
  • Databases: Relational databases (RDS), NoSQL databases (DynamoDB), and data warehouses (Redshift). 
     
  • Analytics: Data processing (EMR, Glue), data lakes (S3), and business intelligence tools (QuickSight). 
     
  • Networking & Content Delivery: Virtual private clouds (VPC), load balancers (ELB), content delivery networks (CloudFront). 
     
  • Other services: Machine learning, IoT, security, and more