Here Amazon explains some of the Benefits of AWS cloud at a Glance; In this article, I summarise the most important benefits of AWS you need to know as an Architect:
- Starting with no Capex
- No-Commitment Service Type
- Instant Delivery
- Scalability and Reliability
- Built-in Security
1- Start with no Cap-Ex
I’m sure you remember the old IT world which you had to invest in all your hardware: Servers, Storages, Switches and Firewalls.
It wasn’t even finished there and you had to design a proper power and cooling considering all the redundancy factors in your built.
But nowadays (thanks to cloud service providers) you can fire up your servers with almost no upfront investment. And basically instead of spending your valuable time and money on preparing your “Hardware Resources” , you let someone else create this for you “As A Service” and you focus on building your applications.
2- No-Commitment Service type
Don’t worry about your underutilised resources anymore and return them whenever you don’t need them with any commitment or long-term contract; So you just pay for the resources that you actually use for your services.
3- Instant Delivery and no more time-consuming negotiations
Do you need 500 servers just for 3 days? No worries! It’s ready for you in minutes! No need to worry about procurement process that may take days and if possible at all for the number of servers you need. Plus no need to negotiate with multiple vendors for better prices, and spend your valuable time on the stuff that can add value to your business.
4- Scalable and Reliable
You can create scalable resources and expand and shrink automatically based on a load of your applications with almost no limit. You can have your services available on multiple data centres and even in multiple regions with almost no down time! What else you want when you have this pure peace of mind; And it is all possible because your IT assets become Programmable Resources
5- Built-in Security
AWS is building data centres based on industry’s highest standards and security best practices; Therefore you don’t need to be worry about being compliance when dealing with security auditors. Here you can find out more about the AWS Cloud Compliance.
So if you are still not sure if moving to the Cloud is the right decision for you, read through these benefits again and make up your mind.
Still not sure! Amazon AWS provides one year of free trial for most of its services under Free Tier and here you can start creating your free account.