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What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go
pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can
access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed
basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Organizations of every type, size, and industry are using the cloud for a wide variety of use cases,
such as data backup, disaster recovery, email, virtual desktops, software development and testing,
big data analytics, and customer-facing web applications. For example, healthcare companies are
using the cloud to develop more personalized treatments for patients. Financial services companies
are using the cloud to power real-time fraud detection and prevention. And video game makers are
using the cloud to deliver online games to millions of players around the world.
Benefits of cloud computing
Agility
The cloud gives you easy access to a broad range of technologies so that you can innovate faster
and build nearly anything that you can imagine. You can quickly spin up resources as you need
them–from infrastructure services, such as compute, storage, and databases, to Internet of Things,
machine learning, data lakes and analytics, and much more.
You can deploy technology services in a matter of minutes, and get from idea to implementation
several orders of magnitude faster than before. This gives you the freedom to experiment, test new
ideas to differentiate customer experiences, and transform your business.
Elasticity
With cloud computing, you don’t have to over-provision resources up front to handle peak levels of
business activity in the future. Instead, you provision the amount of resources that you actually need.
You can scale these resources up or down to instantly grow and shrink capacity as your business
needs change.
Cost savings
The cloud allows you to trade fixed expenses (such as data centers and physical servers) for
variable expenses, and only pay for IT as you consume it. Plus, the variable expenses are much
lower than what you would pay to do it yourself because of the economies of scale.
The three main types of cloud computing include Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service,
and Software as a Service. Each type of cloud computing provides different levels of control,
flexibility, and management so that you can select the right set of services for your needs.
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AWS has more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider,
including compute, storage, databases, networking, data lakes and analytics, machine
learning and artificial intelligence, IoT, security, and much more.
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AWS provides a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that help you solve common problems and
build faster using AWS. Every AWS Solution comes with detailed architecture, a deployment guide,
and instructions for both automated and manual deployment.
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AWS has the most extensive, reliable, and secure global cloud infrastructure.
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