Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s $15 billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years.

Using Amazon Web Services, an e-commerce web site can weather unforeseen demand with ease; a pharmaceutical company can “rent” computing power to execute large-scale simulations; a media company can serve unlimited videos, music, and more; and an enterprise can deploy bandwidth-consuming services and training to its mobile workforce.

Amazon Web Services delivers a number of benefits for IT organizations and developers alike, including:

• Cost-effective. Pay only for what you use, as you use it, with no up-front commitments. As the Amazon Web Services cloud grows, our operations, management and hardware costs shrink, and we pass the savings onto you.

• Dependable. Utilize a battle-tested, web-scale infrastructure that handles whatever you throw at it. The Amazon Web Services cloud is distributed, secure and resilient, giving you reliability and massive scale.

• Flexible. Build any application you want using any platform or any programming model. You control the resources you consume and fit them into your application as you see fit.

• Comprehensive. Don’t start from scratch. Amazon Web Services gives you a number of services you can incorporate into your applications. From databases to payments, these services help you build great applications cost effectively and with less up-front investment.

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The cost-effective IT alternative

With Amazon Web Services, you pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments. To get started, you simply sign up for an account and deploy your first application. AWS manages the infrastructure that enables you to deploy highly scalable and reliable IT solutions.

• No contracts or commitments – With AWS, all it takes to sign up is a credit card. And all it takes to cancel is to close your account online. There are no pre-purchase commitments required, and there is no minimum amount of use required.

• Pay as you go – You pay only for what you use, no more, no less.

• Transparent pricing – Our rate cards are published for everyone to see and there are no hidden fees.

• Better economics – As the number of applications running in our cloud increases, the operations, management, and hardware costs to Amazon are amortized over more users. When we enjoy the economies of scale, we pass those savings onto you in the form of lower prices.

• Better use of your time – Doing the heavy lifting of running IT infrastructure does not differentiate your business from your competition. Running your infrastructure on AWS enables you to focus your energies and expenses on running your business and adding value for your customers – instead of crawling around your datacenter.

• Better environmental impact – From the way we build our datacenters, to the innovative technologies we use to cool and power our hardware, to the inherent green benefits of sharing reusable resources with a global network of customers, Amazon Web Services enables you to maintain a smaller environmental footprint, without sacrificing the scale and flexibility your business demands.

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The cloud you can depend on

At Amazon, we run one of the world’s largest networks of web sites, serving millions of customers every month, and executing millions of transactions for our customers and sellers. Over time, we’ve developed significant expertise in building, operating, and maintaining the worldwide infrastructure required to power this business. With Amazon Web Services, you benefit from our expertise.

• Scalable – Take advantage of our massive compute capacity and storage to build whatever kinds of applications your business demands, , no matter how fast it grows or how big it gets.

• We can handle spikes in usage – Because we operate at such a massive scale and because we enable such a diverse group of customers, we’re able to absorb the peaks and valleys of your application, no matter how high or low they may be. Of course, you still only pay for what you use.

• Reliable and redundant – Our datacenter is built using large amounts of commodity hardware. When one node fails, millions of other nodes pick up the slack. As a result, you gain all the benefits of an always-on and self-healing infrastructure, without ever having to configure or replace hardware.

• Experience – Amazon has spent over a decade and over $2B running some of the world’s most scalable and sophisticated infrastructure. You can benefit from our experience of operations at massive scale.

• Secure – Amazon uses multiple layers of operational and physical security to ensure the integrity and safety of your data. Learn more (pdf) about the operational and physical steps Amazon takes to secure AWS.

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A flexible platform for your business

You know best how to solve the problems your business faces. Amazon Web Services doesn’t force you to use any specific operating system, development platform, or programming model. Sometimes you’ll need Ruby on Rails, other times it may be a PHP problem. With Amazon Web Services, you can make the right decision for your business.

• Platform agnostic – You’re the boss. You choose the operating system. You choose the programming model. You choose the configuration. Choose whatever makes the most sense for the job at hand.

• Ready on day one – AWS can run nearly anything in your datacenter. All you need to decide is when you’re ready to save money, time, headaches, and hassle.

• Application services – Don’t start from scratch. AWS provides you with compelling services for managing databases (Amazon SimpleDB), queues (Amazon SQS), payments (Amazon FPS), and more.

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