Amazon is not only about the online marketplace anymore and has more to it!

With Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon not only helps you by improving your wardrobe, but also helps you with your cloud application development too!

AWS is by far the best way you could host your application on the cloud.

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Hosting an application using AWS has many advantages.

First of all, it is highly reliable.

Secondly, it has cost effective computing resources on which you could host your application.

It also has various components which make your application hosting process a lot easier and more flexible.

This is perhaps one of the reasons why you need to host your application with AWS.

AWS Components that Make Your Application Hosting Experience worth It

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Commonly known as Amazon EC2, this component offers compute capacity in the cloud which is actually resizable. It also gives you APIs and full management consoles so that you can manage the computer resources.

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service

This component offers a web services interface that is easy to use and that can save and retain any quantity of data from anywhere around the world at any given time. It is easily available, safe and has good durability.

  • Amazon Relational Database Service

Commonly known as Amazon RDS, this component eases the whole setting up process and operation and can scale databases in the cloud that are relational.

It offers a resizable database capacity while simultaneously handling databases of administration works that are time consuming.

  • Amazon Cloud Front

Amazon Cloud Front gives a content delivery system that is globally distributed and of great performance.

Your app could make use of this component to effortlessly share stream content with less latency and a greater data transfer pace.

  • Amazon Simple Queue Services

This component gives a highly secured queuing system with high performance. It gives you a chance to distribute the work among the application processes.

  • Amazon Devpay

Amazon Devpay can be used for services related to account management and online billing that would ease your way through the selling of applications.

It is not only those components that make AWS what it is! AWS is further recommended because it has a lot of advantages.

Advantages of AWS Hosting

  • Very Easy to Operate

AWS was designed while keeping in mind the vision of all application providers, vendors, and ISVs who should be able to quickly and safely host their applications.

Irrespective of the kind of applications being hosted, whether existing ones or SaaS based, you can always use the AWS management console or web services APIs.

These are aptly documented in order to gain access to the application hosting platform of AWS.

  • Highly Flexible

AWS will allow you to choose the operating system, web application platform, programming language, database and various services you require.

Using AWS, you can access a virtual atmosphere that would allow you to load the services and software that the application needs.

This also makes the migration process easier for applications that already exist, while also conserving options for building other solutions.

  • Highly Economical

The only expenditure you will have is the electricity and other resources that you would use. Since there are no contracts that last for a long time and upfront commitments, AWS is highly cost effective.

  • Very Reliable

When you use AWS, you are exposed to the benefits of a secure global computing infrastructure that is very reliable and scalable.

Incidentally, this happens to be the virtual spine of Amazon’s online businesses that rake in billions of dollars.

  • High Performance

You can easily scale your application up or down, depending on the demand. This can be done by using AWS tools, elastic load balancing as well as auto scaling.

Supported by the enormous infrastructure that Amazon has, you can easily avail access to storage and computing resources whenever you require them.

  • Highly Secure

AWS uses an end to and characteristic to safeguard and harden the infrastructure which includes operational, software and physical measures.

Okay, so now you have decided to host your application on AWS. But how are you going to do it?

Since doing it yourself might be a risky and time consuming task, resorting to AWS implementation specialists would be the best solutions.

Why Hire an AWS Implementation Specialist for Cloud Solution Development?

  • They Know It inside out

From elastic block storage to the type of performance that can be expected, an AWS professional knows it all.

Furthermore, you cannot take the risk of backing up your data in the wrong way. Only a professional and well experienced developer knows the art of using the snapshot facility via API call and about other techniques.

It is better that you leave a few tasks to only be done by them.

  • Do You Know about Server Management Skills?

AWS is all about cloud computation and you cannot expect yourself to be a master of all trades.

It takes a considerable amount of time and monitoring the health of the server and various tools are used for that which you might not be aware of.

While AWS is still in its infant stage, the service is definitely giving startups a tailspin!

So, when do you plan to host your application with AWS? Do you have any questions or points to add here?

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Tanya Kumari

Written by Tanya Kumari

Tanya leads the Digital Marketing Team at Classic Informatics, a leading web development company . She is an avid reader, music lover and a technology enthusiast who likes to be up to date with all the latest advancements happening in the techno world. When she is not working on her latest article on agile team dynamics, you can find her by the coffee machine, briefing co-workers on the perks of living a healthy lifestyle and how to achieve it.