Overview of Amazon Web Services | Choosing a Cloud Platform

Developing, managing, and operating your applications requires a wide variety of technology services. Customers often ask us what represents a fully-functional, flexible technology infrastructure platform. Below, we outline requirements for a modern, robust, industry-leading technology infrastructure platform with all the benefits that the cloud brings to bear. We also provide information about how AWS delivers against these requirements and why you might need each of these capabilities.

AWS Cost Management
AWS Cost Explorer
Analyze your AWS cost and usage
AWS Budgets
Set custom cost and usage budgets
AWS Cost and Usage Report
Access comprehensive cost and usage information
Reserved Instance Reporting
Dive deeper into your reserved instances (RIs)

Analytics
Amazon Athena
Query data in S3 using SQL
Amazon CloudSearch
Managed search service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Run and scale Elasticsearch clusters
Amazon EMR
Hosted Hadoop framework
Amazon Kinesis
Analyze real-time video and data streams
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Fully managed Apache Kafka service
Amazon Redshift
Fast, simple, cost-effective data warehousing
Amazon QuickSight
Fast business analytics service
AWS Data Pipeline
Orchestration service for periodic, data-driven workflows
AWS Glue
Prepare and load data
AWS Lake Formation
Build a secure data lake in days

AWS began offering its technology infrastructure platform in 2006. At this point, we have over a million active customers using AWS in every imaginable way, and have developed considerable experience operating at scale. We’ve also innovated and delivered at a very rapid pace (delivering 159 significant features and services in 2012, 280 in 2013, 516 in 2014, 722 in 2015, and 1,017 in 2016). Expect this focus on rapidly delivering what customers want to continue.

Security, Global Infrastructure, Compute, Storage, Content Distribution, Database, Application Services, Management Tools, Developer Tools, Support, Integration with Existing Infrastructure, Big Data, Ecosystem

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the market leader in IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) for cloud ecosystems, which can be combined to create a scalable cloud application without worrying about delays related to infrastructure provisioning (compute, storage, and network) and management.

With AWS you can select the specific solutions you need, and only pay for exactly what you use, resulting in lower capital expenditure and faster time to value without sacrificing application performance or user experience.

New and existing companies can build their digital infrastructure partially or entirely in the cloud with AWS, making the on-premise data center a thing of the past. The AWS cloud ensures infrastructure reliability, compliance with security standards, and the ability to instantly grow or shrink your infrastructure to meet your needs and maximize your budget, all without upfront investment in equipment.

Here’s a look at some of the services Amazon offers for making IT design and management simple with AWS.

Essential AWS Services
Amazon offers many services for application development and analytics. Here are some key building blocks in the AWS environment and a brief description of how they are leveraged against your needs.