Amazon Web Server
AWS stand for Amazon Web Services that is comprehensive including cloud computing platform. AWS provides complete service of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS).
AWS basically built to handle online retail operations. AWS was one of the first companies that introduce pay-as-you-go cloud computing model and service. Amazon Web Services provides data centers services from dozens that are spread across availability zones (AZs). Basically, AWS provides multiple locational data centers that typically contain multiple physical data centers.
Amazon Web Services portfolio provide more than 100 services that are including compute, databases, infrastructure management, application development and one of most important security. These services can be defined in category wise.
Compute – (AECC) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides the wide range of hosting servers that are called instances. The EC2 service also offers dozens of types with varying capacities and sizes. AWS also provides an Auto Scaling tool that is capable to dynamically scale capacity to maintain instance health and performance.
Storage – (AS3) Amazon Simple Storage Service provides scalable storage functionality for data backup, archival and analytics. That range up to 5 GB.
Databases and Data Management – AWS provides managed database services. Which is includes Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and high-performance Amazon Aurora? AWS offers fully managed NoSQL databases through Amazon DynamoDB.