AWS is a cloud based service where you can literally do anything related to application development and infrastructure. It removes the Network Engineer role for any organisation and everything related to infrastructure setup, upgrade and maintenance is provided with an easy to use web interface. It is the underlying technology Amazon has been using for their amazon.com multi-billion Dollar eCommerce business.
- The main benefit is the zero start-up cost for the organisations on network infrastructure. You can setup all the systems required in AWS within few hours and you are charged monthly for your usage.
- And there is a free tier for 1 year for you to trial the services they offer. And there are some services which are always free. This has some limitations on the services, but most of the time any small to medium size organisation can stay within the limits.
- No headaches on network maintenance.
- You can choose servers by demographics which includes Australia(Sydney) as well.
- Server maintenance (EC2, VPC, Lambda, Auto Scaling, ELB, etc.)
- Database maintenance (RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora)
- Storage (S3, EBS, EFS)
- Networking (Route 53)
- Management Tools (Cloud Watch)
- Security Tools
- Messaging Tools