AWS
AWS is the world's largest cloud platform: servers, storage, databases, and AI services that you pay for based on usage.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is Amazon's cloud division and the market leader among cloud platforms. Instead of buying your own servers, you rent computing power, storage, and over 200 other services as needed, and only pay for what you actually use.
Typical uses include hosting web apps and online stores, data analysis, backups, and AI applications via Bedrock. Its strength lies in its sheer breadth. For almost every technical problem, there's a ready-made service with a huge community surrounding it.
Azure is the better choice if your company is deeply integrated with Microsoft 365; Google Cloud excels in data and AI. AWS's weakness is its complexity: the pricing structure is difficult for most to grasp immediately, and without cost monitoring, the monthly bill can come as an unpleasant surprise.
Ideal for companies with their own development team or IT partner that require scalable infrastructure. Anyone who just wants to run a website will find a simple web host or Webflow to be more affordable and hassle-free.
Functions
- Pay-as-you-go billing with no base fee
- Largest service portfolio of all cloud providers, with over 200 services
- Free Tier for many services
- Frankfurt Region for data residency in Germany
- Industry standard with the widest selection of developers and service providers
- Scalability from a one-person company to Netflix-level
Core Functions
- Virtual Servers, Containers, and Serverless Computing (EC2, ECS, Lambda)
- Storage and database services, from S3 to managed SQL and NoSQL databases
- AI and Machine Learning services like Bedrock and SageMaker
- Global data center network, including the Frankfurt Region
- Fine-grained access and cost management via IAM and billing tools
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