Cloud computing with AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 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.
Cloud computing with AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 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.
The leading cloud platform
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Most functionality
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine.
AWS also has the deepest functionality within those services. For example, AWS offers the widest variety of databases that are purpose-built for different types of applications so you can choose the right tool for the job to get the best cost and performance.
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Most functionality
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine.
AWS also has the deepest functionality within those services. For example, AWS offers the widest variety of databases that are purpose-built for different types of applications so you can choose the right tool for the job to get the best cost and performance.
Largest community of customers and partners
AWS has the largest and most dynamic community, with millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners globally. Customers across virtually every industry and of every size, including startups, enterprises, and public sector organizations, are running every imaginable use case on AWS. The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes thousands of systems integrators who specialize in AWS services and tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) who adapt their technology to work on AWS.
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Largest community of customers and partners
AWS has the largest and most dynamic community, with millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners globally. Customers across virtually every industry and of every size, including startups, enterprises, and public sector organizations, are running every imaginable use case on AWS. The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes thousands of systems integrators who specialize in AWS services and tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) who adapt their technology to work on AWS.
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Most secure
AWS is architected to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. Our core infrastructure is built to satisfy the security requirements for the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. This is backed by a deep set of cloud security tools, with 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features. AWS supports 90 security standards and compliance certifications, and all 117 AWS services that store customer data offer the ability to encrypt that data.
Most secure
AWS is architected to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. Our core infrastructure is built to satisfy the security requirements for the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. This is backed by a deep set of cloud security tools, with 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features. AWS supports 90 security standards and compliance certifications, and all 117 AWS services that store customer data offer the ability to encrypt that data.
Fastest pace of innovation
With AWS, you can leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. We are continually accelerating our pace of innovation to invent entirely new technologies you can use to transform your business. For example, in 2014, AWS pioneered the serverless computing space with the launch of AWS Lambda, which lets developers run their code without provisioning or managing servers. And AWS built Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service that empowers everyday developers and scientists to use machine learning–without any previous experience.
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Fastest pace of innovation
With AWS, you can leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. We are continually accelerating our pace of innovation to invent entirely new technologies you can use to transform your business. For example, in 2014, AWS pioneered the serverless computing space with the launch of AWS Lambda, which lets developers run their code without provisioning or managing servers. And AWS built Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service that empowers everyday developers and scientists to use machine learning–without any previous experience.
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Most proven operational expertise
AWS has unmatched experience, maturity, reliability, security, and performance that you can depend upon for your most important applications. For over 14 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.
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Most proven operational expertise
AWS has unmatched experience, maturity, reliability, security, and performance that you can depend upon for your most important applications. For over 14 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.
Global network of AWS Regions
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Regions & Number of Availability Zones
US East
N. Virginia (6), Ohio (3)
US West
N. California (3), Oregon (4)
Asia Pacific
Mumbai (3), Seoul (4), Singapore (3), Sydney (3), Tokyo (4), Osaka-Local (1), Hong Kong SAR (3)
Canada
Central (3)
South America
São Paulo (3)
Mainland China
Beijing (2), Ningxia (3)
Europe
Frankfurt (3), Ireland (3), London (3), Milan (3), Paris (3), Stockholm (3)
GovCloud (US)
US-East (3), US-West (3)
Middle East
Bahrain (3)
Africa
Cape Town (3)
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New Regions (Coming Soon)
Indonesia
Osaka
Spain
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Wavelength Zones
Trusted by millions of customers of all types
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Formula One Insights
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Enterprise
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Startups
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Public Sector
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Enterprise
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Expedia is all in on AWS, with plans to migrate 80 percent of its mission-critical applications.
Using Amazon SageMaker, Intuit cuts the time to deploy machine-learning models by 90 percent.
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Startups
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Airbnb benefits from the scalability, agility, and reliability provided by AWS.
Mapbox can collect 100 million miles of telemetry data every day using AWS.
Lyft is going all in on AWS to deliver better customer experiences and focus on innovation.
Nextdoor has relied on AWS to support every component of its platform.
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Public Sector
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FINRA collects and analyzes billions of brokerage transactions daily using AWS.
By using AWS, Coursera can handle half a petabyte of traffic each month.
DigitalGlobe is all in on AWS and uses Amazon SageMaker to handle machine learning at scale.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses AWS to deliver cost-effective, innovative new programs.
Cloud computing leadership
Gartner Research positions AWS in the Leaders quadrant of the new 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS). CIPS, in the context of this Magic Quadrant, are defined as “standardized, highly automated offerings, in which infrastructure resources (e.g., compute, networking and storage) are complemented by integrated platform services.”
Learn more about cloud computing on AWS
Pricing
AWS offers a pay-as-you-go approach for pricing.
Pricing for each service is unique.
Products
AWS has over 175 fully featured services for a wide range of technologies, industries, and use cases.
Global infrastructure
AWS has the most extensive, reliable, and secure global cloud infrastructure.