Giving you easy access to a broad range of technologies for faster innovation. Spin up resources as you need them from infrastructure services (compute, storage, databases, IoT, machine learning, etc). The cloud’s the limit!

With AWS, you don’t have to overprovision resources up-front to handle peak levels of future business activity.

Instead, it’s a utility like water (Amazon Water Services, as my sister first thought). Take the required amount only. You can scale resources up/down to instantly grow & shrink capacity as the workloads’ needs changes.

AWS allows you to trade CAPEX (capital expenses -data centres & physical servers) for variable expense. Now, resources consume only what they need, and when.

Not only this, but pay less for variable expenses overall due to economies of scale. No need to build an entire hotel if you’re only staying for one night.

Cloud allows you to shift your focus away from grappling the IT challenges, to instead divert your time & money into what matters most - differentiating your business.

Security is partially delegated to cloud provider.

In the case of a MySQL database service, you won't have to update and patch the latest update version, the cloud provider does that for you.

By default, most of cloud services are using default strong encryption for highly restricted data.

With the cloud, you can expand to new geographic regions and deploy globally in minutes. AWS has infrastructure across continents, so you can deploy application in multiple physical locations with a few clicks.

Putting applications in closer proximity to end-users reduces latency and improves their experience, as well as being ready for any disaster recovery in an incident inside data centre (malicious damage, powercuts, Godzilla uprisings, etc).

Usage is measured. Pay only for what you consume. Resources can be monitored, controlled, reported and billed. No need to buy or license in advance.