5 reasons companies move to the AWS cloud

Question 1

Agility

Answer 1

AWS lets customers quickly spin up resources as they need them, deploying hundreds or even thousands of servers in minutes. This means customers can very quickly develop and roll out new applications, and it means teams can experiment and innovate more quickly and frequently. If an experiment fails, you can always de-provision those resources without risk.

Question 2

Cost Savings

Answer 2

If you look at how people end up moving to the cloud, almost always the conversation starter ends up being cost. AWS allows customers to trade capital expense for variable expense, and only pay for IT as they consume it. And, the variable expense is much lower than what customers can do for themselves because of AWS’s economies of scale.

Question 3

Elasticity

Answer 3

Customers used to over provision to ensure they had enough capacity to handle their business operations at the peak level of activity. Now, they can provision the amount of resources that they actually need, knowing they can instantly scale up or down along with the needs of their business, which also reduces cost and improves the customer’s ability to meet their user’s demands.

Question 4

Innovation

Answer 4

The cloud allows customers to innovate faster because they can focus their highly valuable IT resources on developing applications that differentiate their business and transform customer experiences instead of the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing infrastructure and data centers.

Question 5

Go Global in Minutes

Answer 5

AWS has the concept of a Region, which is a physical location around the world where we cluster data centers. We call each group of logical data centers an Availability Zone. Using AWS, customers can leverage 84 Availability Zones across 26 geographic regions worldwide.