Advantages and Disadvantages of Amazon Web Services in Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Choice of cloud service in discussion........................................................................................2
History of Amazon Web Services..........................................................................................2
Advantages of Amazon Web Services.......................................................................................3
Increased Efficiency in Service Provision..............................................................................3
Increased reliability and Availability.....................................................................................3
Economies of Scale................................................................................................................3
Disadvantages of Amazon Web Services..................................................................................3
Security...................................................................................................................................3
Alternate e-Commerce models...................................................................................................4
Mobile Cloud Services...............................................................................................................4
Other Relevant Information.......................................................................................................4
Evaluation: Future of cloud services..........................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Cloud computing can be explained as outsourcing of IT infrastructures via the
internet. It saves the agony of maintaining hardware and software environment, by providing
computing resources on demand through the internet. In most cases, cloud computing
exposes the users to computing systems through internet interfaces to use services for
instance search engines, online stores, and web-based email. This report will outline both the
advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing. Also, mobile cloud services and an
evaluation of the future of cloud computing will be discussed.
Choice of cloud service in discussion
Amazon Web Services (also known as AWS) is a pool of remote computing services
(that are also referred to as web services) that all together form a cloud computing platform
and services, accessible over the Internet via Amazon.com (Radford, 2014). I choose AWS
because it’s becoming popular and widely used by almost every business.
The better quality services of AWS together with solid management capabilities assist
organizations in ensuring on-demand availability of services. In addition, the AWS has
hosting centers in various regions, and this feature assists companies to obtain advantages in
terms of remote access (Radford, 2014).
History of Amazon Web Services
Amazon is one provider of cloud computing that played a very important role in its
development through the modernization of the data centres. The data centres of Amazon were
using only up to 10 per cent of their total capacity at a given point in time. When Amazon
realized that the new cloud architecture could significantly improve the internal efficiency,
Amazon started the development of a new product to provide the external customers with
cloud computing, and hence launched the Amazon Web Service (AWS) on the basis of utility
computing in the year 2006.