Cloud Provider
Amazon Web Services
The industry standard. Maximum services, maximum scale.
AWS is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, used by millions of customers from fast-growing startups to the largest enterprises. With over 200 services spanning compute, storage, databases, AI/ML, and IoT, it sets the benchmark every other cloud is measured against.
200+
Cloud services
32
Geographic regions
33%
Global market share
Advantages
Widest service catalog
Over 200 fully featured managed services — from compute and databases to quantum computing and satellite ground stations. Whatever you need, AWS almost certainly has a managed version.
Massive global footprint
32 regions, 102 availability zones, and 600+ edge locations. Deploy your workloads close to users anywhere on the planet and achieve sub-10ms latency in most markets.
Best-in-class startup program
AWS Activate gives startups up to $100K in credits plus access to technical advisors. Ideal for zero-to-Series-A journeys where infrastructure cost matters.
Largest ecosystem and talent pool
The biggest community of certified engineers, the most third-party integrations, and the broadest partner network in the industry. Hiring or buying expertise is easier here than anywhere else.
Enterprise compliance portfolio
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, and 140+ compliance programs out of the box. The most complete compliance story in cloud.
Disadvantages
Complexity and decision fatigue
The breadth of services is also a liability. Do you use RDS, Aurora, or Redshift? ECS, EKS, or Fargate? Teams often spend weeks choosing between overlapping products before writing a line of code.
Unpredictable billing
Data egress fees, per-request pricing, and dozens of billing dimensions make cost forecasting genuinely hard. AWS bills surprise even experienced teams.
Expensive without FinOps
Without active cost optimisation, AWS bills grow 3-5x faster than actual usage due to idle resources, default over-provisioning, and data transfer charges.
Support costs add up fast
The Business support tier (minimum for production incidents) starts at 10% of monthly spend. At $50K/month in usage, that's $5K/month just for support.
Typical use cases
- 1High-traffic SaaS applications requiring global distribution
- 2Regulated industries needing comprehensive compliance coverage (HIPAA, FedRAMP)
- 3Machine learning pipelines and model serving with SageMaker
- 4Serverless event-driven architectures at scale with Lambda and EventBridge
- 5Enterprise data centre migrations and hybrid cloud via Outposts
Best for
Startups planning to scale globally, enterprises needing deep compliance coverage, and teams building complex multi-service architectures where the breadth of managed services is a competitive advantage.
How we work with AWS
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