Top 5 Most Used Features of AWS

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AWS is the world's most famous cloud hosting provider with around 30%+ market share and is far ahead of competitors like Azure and Google Cloud. The first service launched by AWS was S3 — and ever since, AWS has released countless new services for various use cases.

In this article, we list out the top most-used services in the AWS cloud space.

Top 5 Most Used Features of AWS

1. Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

EC2 is the service that lets customers spin up virtual machines on demand based on various Golden Images (AMIs) for operating systems like Windows, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. AWS provides an easy-to-use UI for VM creation and management with lots of backup and snapshot features. EC2 is by far the most-used service in AWS.

2. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Amazon S3 is a data storage server over the internet. S3 is fast, reliable, and can be used for multiple purposes. Most companies use it for storing data, backups, logs — and some use it for hosting static website content. S3 is highly available and lets you access data from anywhere with zero retrieval time.

3. Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)

Databases are critical and require lots of housekeeping and management. RDS helps resolve all the management, HA, and DR complexities. It is a PaaS service which provides in-built features for backup, upgrade, HA, and DR for various database technologies like MySQL, SQL Server, and Postgres.

4. Amazon CloudFront

CloudFront is a Global Content Delivery Service from AWS that helps developers transfer content such as videos, pictures, and huge datasets from AWS servers to clients in a highly secure manner and with fast speeds. CloudFront uses proxy servers and cache data to deliver content locally to users.

5. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

VPC is in the networking layer of AWS. Since AWS has lots of customer data on the same data centers, VPC is used to isolate the resources of one user from another — securing data access over the network. VPC networks are logically isolated from other virtual clouds, making user information risk-free and highly secure.

AWS is highly reliable and the most-used cloud service in Thailand. Major Thai companies and startups use AWS to host their services. If you need consultation for cloud service hosting, management, and scaling, feel free to get in touch with Sequence Technologies.