What does AWS do?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
AWS has the most extensive global cloud infrastructure. The AWS Region and Availability
Zone model has been recognized
by Gartner as the recommended approach for running enterprise applications that
require high availability.
Most functionality
AWS offers a vast array of services, spanning from foundational infrastructure like compute and storage to cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning and IoT. Its extensive offerings make migrating to the cloud seamless and cost-effective, with deep functionality across services. Notably, AWS provides a diverse range of purpose-built databases, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency for various applications.
Largest community of customers and partners
AWS boasts the largest and most dynamic community globally, with millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners. Spanning all industries and sizes, from startups to enterprises and public sector organizations, users run diverse use cases on AWS. The AWS Partner Network (APN) features thousands of specialized systems integrators and tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) adapting their technology for AWS.
Most secure
AWS is designed to offer unparalleled flexibility and security in cloud computing. Its core infrastructure meets stringent security standards, catering to the needs of military, global banks, and high-sensitivity organizations. With over 300 security, compliance, and governance services and support for 143 security standards and certifications, AWS ensures robust protection for data and applications.
Fastest pace of innovation
With AWS, you can rapidly experiment and innovate using cutting-edge technologies. AWS continuously innovates, introducing new tools to transform businesses. For instance, AWS Lambda revolutionized serverless computing in 2014, while Amazon SageMaker enables easy machine learning for developers and scientists, regardless of experience.
Most proven operational expertise
performance that you can depend upon for your most important applications. For over 17 years, AWS has been delivering cloud services to millions of customers around the world running a wide variety of use cases. AWS has the most operational experience, at greater scale, of any cloud provider.
