Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s cloud web hosting platform that offers flexible, reliable, scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solutions. Today, AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low- cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers multitude of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web-based service that allows businesses to run application programs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Amazon EC2 allows a developer to spin up virtual machines (VMs), which provide compute capacity for IT projects and cloud workloads that run with global AWS data centres.

AWS EC2 Benefits

  • EC2 reduces the time to boot new servers
  • Scaling capacity based on changes to computing requirements
  • Complete control of servers
  • Flexibility with operating systems
  • Built-in security 
  • Auto-scaling
  • Pay-as-you-go
  • Increased Reliability
  • Elasticity

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web-based service that allows businesses to run application programs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Amazon EC2 allows a developer to spin up virtual machines (VMs), which provide compute capacity for IT projects and cloud workloads that run with global AWS data centres.

AWS EC2 Benefits

  • EC2 reduces the time to boot new servers
  • Scaling capacity based on changes to computing requirements
  • Complete control of servers
  • Flexibility with operating systems
  • Built-in security 
  • Auto-scaling
  • Pay-as-you-go
  • Increased Reliability
  • Elasticity

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a scalable, high-speed, low-cost web-based service designed for online backup and archiving of data and application programs. It allows to upload, store, and download any type of files up to 5 TB in size.

Amazon S3 Features

  • Low cost and Easy to Use − Using Amazon S3, the user can store a large amount of data at very low charges.
  • Secure − Amazon S3 supports data transfer over SSL and the data gets encrypted automatically once it is uploaded. The user has complete control
  • Scalable − Using Amazon S3, there need not be any worry about storage concerns. We can store as much data as we have and access it anytime.
  • Higher performance − Amazon S3 is integrated with Amazon CloudFront, that distributes content to the end users with low latency and provides high data transfer speeds without any minimum usage commitments.
  • Integrated with AWS services − Amazon S3 integrated with AWS services include Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CLoudWatch, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon VPC, AWS Lambda, Amazon EBS, Amazon Dynamo DB, etc

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes. AWS Backup automates and consolidates backup tasks previously performed service-by-service, removing the need to create custom scripts and manual processes. With just a few clicks in the AWS Backup console, you can create backup policies that automate backup schedules and retention management. AWS Backup provides a fully managed, policy-based backup solution, simplifying your backup management, enabling you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.

Benefits

Centrally manage backups

Automate backup processes