Amazon Web Services is Amazon's cloud platform, providing on-demand compute, storage, databases, networking, and hundreds of managed services. Launched in 2006, it spans dozens of regions and over a hundred availability zones, with a 99.99% uptime SLA and managed Kubernetes with Helm support. It serves everyone from startups to large enterprises, and offers a 12-month free tier alongside always-free services such as Lambda and DynamoDB plus a startup program. As a hyperscaler it carries broad attestations including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and FedRAMP. Its breadth of proprietary services means higher vendor lock-in, suiting teams committed to the AWS ecosystem.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2006
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $5/mo
- Regions
- 36
- Availability zones
- 114
- SLA uptime
- 99.99%
- Managed Kubernetes
- Yes
- Helm support
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- Vendor lock-in
- High
- Open standards
- No
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- No
- Org size
- Enterprise
- Support tier
- Enterprise
- Ease of use
- 2/5
Categories & compliance
Categories
Compliance
SOC2ISO27001HIPAAGDPRPCI-DSSFedRAMP