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Amazon Web Services
Hyperscale cloud platform for compute, storage, and managed services
A broad cloud platform offering infrastructure services and managed building blocks across regions and availability zones.
In depth
What it is
Amazon Web Services is a broad cloud platform offering infrastructure services and managed building blocks across regions and availability zones.
Key features
- Breadth - Large catalog of compute, storage, and managed services.
- IAM - Policy-based identity and access management across services.
- Networking - Virtual networks, routing, and private connectivity options.
- Regions - Multi-region deployment patterns and global services.
Strengths
- Breadth - Large catalog of compute, storage, and managed services.
- IAM - Policy-based identity and access management across services.
- Networking - Virtual networks, routing, and private connectivity options.
Trade-offs
- Cost complexity - Billing has many dimensions and can be hard to forecast.
- Lock-in - Managed services create deep coupling to vendor primitives.
- Governance - Account structure and policy boundaries need continual upkeep.
Pricing
Usage-based billing across many services. Cost drivers include resource consumption, data transfer, and managed add-ons.
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