Amazon Web Services (AWS)

When it comes to implementing Cloud computing platform, there is no doubt that Amazon has been the pioneer or leader. Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) platform has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud that is cost-effective, scalable, reliable and very extendable.

What is AWS model ?

AWS model gives you the complete power to request/consume only what you need for your business like compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them.

The benefits With AWS

• You have the flexibility to choose development platform or programming model that best fits your business
• You pay only for what you use
• no up-front expenses
• no long-term commitments
• most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients
• higly scalable
• Secure
• Very very reliable (more reliable than if you host these services with your in-house resources)

All in all, Amazon’s Web Services provides your An ultra-flexible platform for your business that is scalable, cost-effective, ready on day one and secure.

What Services are supported ?

Amazon(AWS) has done a fantastic job of providing reliable choices for your mulitple infrastucure needs for your business – be it storage, computing capacity or your content delivery.

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2™) – A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Configure an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) and load it into the Amazon EC2 service. Quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. ›Learn more about Amazon EC2™

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3™) – A simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve large amounts of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. ›Learn more about Amazon S3™

• Amazon CloudFront™ – A web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. ›Learn more about Amazon CloudFront™

• Amazon SimpleDB™ – A web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core functionality of a database—real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data—without the operational complexity. ›Learn more about Amazon SimpleDB™

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS™) – A reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS, developers can simply move data between distributed components of their applications that perform different tasks, without losing messages or requiring each component to be always available. ›Learn more about Amazon SQS™

There are plenty of other products/services offered by Amazon web services