Cloud Computing | AI | Data & Analytics | Security | Infrastructure
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing provider offering infrastructure, platforms and services that organizations use to build, deploy and operate applications and technology environments. Its portfolio covers computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, security and application development.
AWS serves organizations ranging from startups and enterprises to nonprofits and government institutions. Its cloud technologies can support different types of workloads, industries and business requirements.
About AWS
AWS provides on-demand cloud technologies that allow organizations to access computing and IT capabilities without having to build and maintain all of the underlying physical infrastructure themselves.
Its services cover fundamental requirements such as computing power, storage and databases, along with specialized capabilities for artificial intelligence, analytics, application development, security and infrastructure management.
Organizations can combine AWS services to build applications, migrate existing workloads, process data, develop AI systems and operate digital platforms.
AWS also provides industry-specific solutions and works with partners to support organizations adopting and modernizing cloud technologies.
Key Solutions
Cloud & IT
Cloud infrastructure is at the center of AWS’s technology portfolio.
AWS provides services covering computing, storage, databases, networking, containers, serverless technologies and application development. Organizations can combine these services to create cloud environments suited to their applications and infrastructure requirements.
AWS can also support cloud migration and application modernization, allowing businesses to move existing workloads or develop new cloud-native applications.
AI & Automation
AWS provides artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies for organizations developing and deploying AI applications.
Its current AI portfolio includes services and infrastructure for building AI applications, developing AI agents, training and deploying machine learning models, and working with generative AI. AWS lists services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Nova among its AI capabilities.
AWS also provides AI capabilities designed to support automation and business applications.
Data & Analytics
AWS provides technologies for collecting, storing, processing and analyzing data.
Its portfolio includes databases, analytics services, data integration technologies, data lakes and machine-learning capabilities. These services can be combined to create data platforms supporting reporting, analytics, application development and AI workloads.
Cybersecurity
Security is integrated across AWS infrastructure and services.
AWS provides capabilities covering identity and access management, data protection, network security, threat detection, security monitoring and compliance.
AWS also provides security and governance capabilities specifically for AI workloads, addressing security considerations across infrastructure, models and applications.
Digital Transformation
Cloud adoption can form part of a broader digital transformation strategy.
AWS provides technologies that organizations can use to migrate workloads, modernize applications, build digital products, develop AI capabilities and create new data-driven services.
Its cloud infrastructure can therefore support transformation initiatives involving applications, data, AI, infrastructure and security.
AWS Cloud Infrastructure
AWS provides a broad range of cloud infrastructure services that organizations can use according to their technical and operational requirements.
Key categories include:
- Compute
- Storage
- Databases
- Networking
- Containers
- Serverless computing
- Application integration
- Application development
- Monitoring
- Security
- Infrastructure management
AWS services can be used individually or combined into larger technology architectures.
This allows organizations to build and operate applications using cloud infrastructure without having to purchase and maintain equivalent physical infrastructure for every workload.
AWS and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has become an important part of AWS’s current cloud portfolio.
AWS provides infrastructure and services for developing, training and deploying machine learning and generative AI applications. Its current AI portfolio includes technologies for building AI agents and applications, foundation models, machine learning and AI infrastructure.
Amazon Bedrock provides a managed environment for building generative AI applications, while Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides capabilities for developing and operating AI agents. AWS also provides Amazon SageMaker AI for building, training and deploying machine learning and foundation models.
These technologies allow organizations to develop AI applications while using AWS infrastructure and security capabilities.
AWS and Data & Analytics
Data services form another major part of the AWS ecosystem.
AWS provides technologies covering:
- Relational databases
- NoSQL databases
- Data warehouses
- Data lakes
- Data integration
- Analytics
- Business intelligence
- Machine learning
Organizations can use these services to create data architectures for applications, operational reporting, analytics and AI workloads.
The connection between data, analytics and AI is particularly relevant for businesses looking to use organizational data for decision-making and new digital applications.
AWS Security
AWS provides security capabilities across its cloud infrastructure and services.
These include:
- Identity and access management
- Encryption
- Data protection
- Network security
- Threat detection
- Security monitoring
- Compliance
- Application security
AWS follows a shared responsibility model, under which AWS and its customers have different security responsibilities depending on the services and environments being used.
For organizations moving workloads to the cloud, understanding these responsibilities is an important part of designing and operating a secure AWS environment.
Industries Served
AWS provides cloud technologies and industry-specific solutions across a wide range of sectors. Its current industry portfolio includes:
- Financial Services
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Manufacturing
- Retail & Consumer Goods
- Telecommunications
- Automotive
- Energy & Utilities
- Media & Entertainment
- Travel & Hospitality
- Education
- Government
- Advertising & Marketing
- Aerospace & Satellite
- Games
- Sports
- Semiconductor
AWS states that its industry approach combines cloud technologies with sector-specific expertise and purpose-built solutions.
For example, AWS provides financial-services solutions covering banking, capital markets, insurance and payments.
Its healthcare portfolio includes solutions involving healthcare data, analytics, AI/ML, clinical systems, patient and clinician experiences, medical research and core health IT.
AWS for Business Transformation
Organizations can use AWS technologies across different stages of their technology and business transformation.
Common use cases include:
- Cloud migration
- Application modernization
- AI adoption
- Data and analytics
- Digital product development
- Infrastructure modernization
- Cloud-based security
- Scalable application deployment
The appropriate combination of services depends on an organization’s existing technology environment, applications, data, security requirements and business objectives.
Key Capabilities
AWS’s technology portfolio spans:
- Cloud Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Generative AI
- Data & Analytics
- Databases
- Storage
- Networking
- Application Development
- Cybersecurity
- Serverless Computing
- Containers
- Internet of Things
- Cloud Migration
- Application Modernization
- Infrastructure Management
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