There are significant benefits of using AWS over a traditional data center, and some of them are listed here:
- Switching from Capital Expenditure (CapEx) to Operational Expenditure (OpEx): There is no need to bear the huge upfront cost of purchasing hardware or software and making a CapEx provision in the budget for procuring the same. With AWS, you only pay for what services you use on a monthly basis as OpEx.
- The cost benefit of massive economies of scale: Since AWS purchases everything in bulk, this gives them a cost advantage. AWS passes on the benefit of this cost advantage to their customers by offering services at a low cost. As the AWS cloud becomes larger and larger, these massive economies of scale benefit AWS, as well as end customers.
- There is no need to guess the required infrastructure capacity: Most of the...
