A Guide to AWS

Even those new to IT have probably heard that everyone is "moving to the cloud." This transition from standard infrastructure is thanks in large part to Amazon Web Services. Currently, AWS offers "over 90 fully featured services for computing, storage, networking, analytics, application services, deployment, identity and access management, directory services, security. All of these services offer powerful, cloud-based, pay-as-you-go alternatives compared to their legacy counterparts." To help you better understand the scale at which AWS is capable of running, keep in mind that there are currently over 1 million enterprise customers worldwide who run the AWS marketplace software 70 million hours per month, according to DMR. Likewise, as of 2017, AWS owned 34% of all cloud (IaaS, PaaS) while the next three competitors Microsoft, Google, and IBM have 11%, 8%, 6% respectively, according to Synergy Group.