Won't it be easy, if you were able to run your application hosting in seconds? How will you feel if you are able to focus only on the development side?
Well, in the past before the development of AWS or any other cloud providers, companies and organizations used to host and maintain computing, storage, and network equipment in their own data centers. They had to allocate entire infrastructure departments to take care of the data centers. This resulted in high costs.
As internet usage increased, the demand for the compute, storage, and networking equipment increased. For some companies and organizations, the cost of maintaining a large physical presence was unsustainable. To solve this problem, cloud computing was created.
Cloud computing in general terms can be referred to as the on-demand delivery of IT infrastructures. In the past, the storage, and computing resources were allocated in the beginning in the data center whereas nowadays cloud providers' services are activated on demand.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an infrastructure-as-a-service provider (service model) using a public cloud (deployment model). All the services that we used to use in the past through the physical data centers are today available through AWS. The amount of compute resources and storage services are pay-as-yo-go services. You pay only for the amount you use.
Let's discuss some of the benefits of AWS cloud computing.
Pay as you go: - You pay only when you are using computing resources. In the past, you had to invest in whole data centers and hardware though you were unknown of how much you are going to use them.
Benefit from massive economies of scale:- Using your own physical servers can cost so much that cloud computing helps to cut those prices.
Increase speed and agility:- IT resources are only a click away, which means that you reduce the time to make those resources available to your developers from weeks to just minutes.
Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers:- AWS helps you to focus on your projects and manages all the infrastructures and services for you.
Go global in minutes:- Easily deploy your application in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks. This means you can provide lower latency and a better experience for your customers at a minimal cost.
These are only a few to name on the advantages of cloud computing. Today every company and business is shifting towards the cloud and it's your time to excel in it.