The benefits of AWS are significant and are listed as follows:
- Switch Capital Expenditure (CapEx) to Operational Expenditure (OpEx): No need to bear the huge upfront cost of purchasing hardware or software and making provision CapEx for these in the budget. With AWS, you pay only for what services you use on a monthly basis as OpEx.
- Cost benefit from massive economies of scale: Since AWS purchases everything in bulk, it gives them a cost advantage. AWS passes on the benefit from this cost advantage to their customers by offering the services at low cost. As the AWS cloud becomes larger and larger, these massive economies of scale benefit AWS as well as end customers.
- No need to guess required infrastructure capacity: Most of the time, before actual IT implementation, guessing the IT infrastructure requirement leads to either...
