Since the 2006 announcement of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Web Services (AWS) has run the broadest and deepest portfolio of available services in reliable, scalable, and secure compute, storage, and networking infrastructure.
With the ability to run instances across dozens of resource types and sizes, attachment to all-purpose storage, and the largest global infrastructure available on the market, startups can solve almost any infrastructure challenge imaginable. They can do this while also making use of multiple purchase models that allow for greater flexibility for either shortterm processing or continued long-running services at a massive scale.