Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

So Let's first understand what is Cloud Computing ? And connect the points

Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.

I hope you are getting some points already cleared here.

Now What is pay as you go basis?

  • It is a payment method for cloud computing that charges based on usage.

  • You will pay only what you will use.

Now Let's read the definition once again by connecting the points.

AWS provides the on demand delivery of computing services like including servers, storage, databases etc. And the basic and important thing here is you will only pay for what you will use.

Example:- If You have created an EC2 instance in the cloud(We demanded EC2 and we got it in minutes), You have used it for a while and you terminated it.(AWS will charge only for what you have used)

From here we can consider few important points about AWS

  • On demand Service
  • Pay As you go Pricing
  • You can access to as many resources you need instantly
  • Simple way to access to servers, storage