Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is a cloud-focused service provider of highly automated, cost-effective IT capabilities, delivered in a flexible, on-demand manner. AWS is desirable for small businesses because it eliminates the need for those businesses to purchase hardware. AWS had 29 different services available include server solutions, database solutions, development tools and management, and even messaging solutions. Each with different price models and purposes. Here are some of their popular services:

EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that allows users to scale websites and applications to meet demand. EC2 allows a business to have a server or many servers. If a need should arise, it is possible to quickly add server capacity to manage a spike in traffic or business. When the peak period is over, it is just as easy to scale back. The process can even be automated so that a site always has the proper capabilities to meet demand.

S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a storage solution for the Internet. Ecommerce businesses can use it to house downloadable products like software or ebooks or use it to store product images a video. Merchants could even host a website or website files from S3.

CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that makes it relatively easy to distribute content to shoppers with very low latency, meaning the time interval between when a request is made and when a response is available. This is especially helpful with product images. CloudFront could distribute images so that they load more quickly for end users.

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