Advantages of using Amazon Web Services As A Hosting Platform

People are moving forward. No one wants to sit in a small office and handle the bunch of clients for years. People are expanding their businesses. Who would not want to get leads from different countries?

Who would not want to work with people all around the globe? It is clear that organizations are taking every step required to expand their businesses.

When we say expanding a business, it is obvious that organizations develop websites. Websites for business offer complete information 24*7. Customers can view all details about the products, organization, and resources. Organizations can use websites as marketing tools.

Often companies develop websites to enhance brand image and get leads from other countries. Every organization visits company websites first and then decide whether to work with it or not.

Are you developing a website just for the sake of development? Are you not planning to attract customers from different regions and get potential leads?

Then you should develop a single page website that shows basic information about your business. If you want to develop a website full of unique features and the latest trends, you can develop it using any language and various tools.

But first thing needed for websites is a server. When you develop a website, the web pages are stored in a server. The web hosting service provider displays your web pages on the browser. It basically allows companies to post or display a website on the internet.

Businesses can host their own websites. It requires a connection on t-Carrier system or other similar systems. Using such internet connection system becomes expensive. But if you a hosting service, then you can share the cost of a fast Internet connection for serving files with other companies.

In this article, we are going to discuss aws i.e Amazon Web services. AWS was launched in the year 2006. Its objective was to handle Amazon's online retail operations.

It introduced the pay-as-you-go cloud computing model. Basically, it offers a house for your website in the cloud. The company started by selling books through online stores.

Now the giant company has their own range of voice assistants, smart devices, IoT devices, etc. The company has also achieved great success in offering web services.

As per a report generated by Gartner the worldwide cloud revenue has grown by 24.1 percent in the year 2018. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft will capture 80 percent of all cloud platform revenue in the year 2020.

A single availability zone contains dozens of data centers. And a region contains a collection of AZs (availability zone).

There are multiple web hosting service providers in the market. Let us see why you should go with Amazon web server as a hosting platform

With AWS hosting platform, you can work on any content management system like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and more.

Worried about the location? Being a website owner, it is clear that you can have visitors from all over the world. The Amazon web services have a data center hosting your website in any location from around the globe.

On the basis of hardware, software, operating system, networking features, redundancy and security, the fees is decided. The AWS has virtual computers that are similar to real-world computers in terms of hardware, RAM, operating system, hard disk, networking, etc.

AWS has amazing power back and repair teams that work best for websites with a continuous flow of visitors 24*7. The best part about AWS is that you can turn off the rented server and save some cost whenever the server is not in use.

Due to this and other amazing features, AWS has some potential clients such as Netflix. You can host static as well as dynamic websites on AWS.

AWS delivers IaaS and PaaS components. At present, no other company has yet offered these components. Developers need not to build a network firewall since AWS has offered a built-in firewall.

It also delivers full managed networking with Private/public networks using VPC. The AWS offers excellent disaster recovery and fault-tolerant features.

In the case of service failure, AWS users need not worry as it offers Automation, Cloning instances, data replication across regions etc. With these features, it becomes easy to recover from a service failure or crash.

• AWS eliminates single points of failure and offers High-availability
• Distributed infrastructure. AWS scales down the hardware to avoid overspending. This helps in cost saving. AWS offers on-demand infrastructure for scaling applications and tasks.
• This increases hardware power available to your app developers can not only save cost but also plan resources properly. Since there is no need to run a data center for internal servers, the resources can save the cost of purchasing servers in bulk.

Conclusion

AWS has certain unique features and hence is becoming a popular web hosting platform.

My name is Hemendra Singh. I am Managing Director and Co-Founder of The NineHertz, a Mobile App Development Company. My ideology is that, a clear vision and hard work builds a great company.