AWS Cloud Hosting for Enterprise Applications

What is AWS cloud hosting is?

Nowadays, more and more enterprises opt for cloud-based IT infrastructure. It isn’t just another trend. It is a chance to take a business to another level with cloud services. That’s why enterprises not only choose to develop their new applications in the Cloud but also tend to migrate existing software there.

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If you’re planning on adding cloud services to your enterprise applications, then you should seriously consider Amazon Web Services (AWS). So undoubtedly, Amazon is the most popular provider of cloud platforms. It leaves behind tree other tech giants such as Google, Microsoft Azure, and IBM. AWS offers a large number of products to meet your business goals. You can virtually host any enterprise applications, including networks like firewall, DNS, Load balancing, or even you can have your virtual private Cloud.

AWS enterprise application example

Let’s say you develop an application. It implies servers, web storage, and databases, that are customizable due to the system functionality and software needs.

Essentially, you have two options — to go with your own computing infrastructure and data centers or to rent access to storage from a Cloud Service Provider (Amazon in our case). In the first case, the process usually takes weeks or even months and is quite costly to purchase and maintain the hardware. Alternatively, you can get virtual hosting in just a few clicks. Instead, you’ll get a full, real-time, administrative control over the resources almost instantly and will pay only for what you use when you use it. For businesses, those savings are essential. All you need to do is to choose the instance type that fits your app.

It seems quite evident that Cloud has more advantages in terms of management, budget, and security. Besides, AWS is available to enterprises of any size at any location of the world.

What does Amazon Web Services provide?

Amazon Web Services hosting is highly beneficial for enterprise applications due to these reasons:

• Management software solutions

AWS provides more than 50 cloud infrastructure services delivered on an on-demand basis. It bringings an opportunity to explore IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, all from a single platform. IaaS includes computing power, storage facilities, databases, and other IT resources available via the Internet. Enterprises benefit from using such resources instead of local physical data centers to build and run their applications.

• The global infrastructure of Amazon Web Services

AWS serves over a million active customers in more than 190 countries and steadily expand global infrastructure to help our customers achieve lower latency and higher throughput. Today, the AWS Cloud spans 69 Availability Zones within 22 geographic Regions around the world, with announced plans for more Availability Zones and Regions. For more information on the AWS Cloud Availability Zones and AWS Regions, see AWS Global Infrastructure.

• Great support for enterprise applications

Businesses can make use of a number of different services for corporate emails, calendaring, virtual desktops, and document collaboration. These AWS features make it easier for corporate entities to meet the requirements and performance expectations of employees, while also delivering well on necessary security requirements.

Author: Halyna Vilchynska — Marketing Lead at DevCom.
Originally published at DevCom Blog on August 22, 2019.