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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The largest public cloud, with the broadest catalogue of services.

  • Public cloud (IaaS, PaaS)
  • Typical project: 4–8 weeks
  • Amazon
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Overview

AWS was the first large public cloud and still offers the most services, from virtual servers (EC2) and storage (S3) to databases, analytics, AI (Amazon Bedrock) and IoT.

Enterprises choose it for depth, global reach and the size of its partner and talent pool. The flip side is choice: with so many services, a sound architecture and cost controls matter from day one.

Names you'll meet

  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon S3
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon EKS

What's inside

  1. 1

    Compute

    EC2 virtual machines, Lambda serverless functions, and EKS or ECS for containers.

  2. 2

    Storage & databases

    S3 object storage, RDS and Aurora relational databases, DynamoDB for key-value data.

  3. 3

    Networking & identity

    VPCs, IAM roles and policies, and AWS Organizations for multi-account setups.

  4. 4

    Data & AI

    Redshift, Glue, Athena, SageMaker, and Bedrock for generative AI.

  5. 5

    Operations

    CloudWatch monitoring, CloudFormation templates and Cost Explorer.

Is it right for you?

Best for

  • Cloud-native products that need many managed building blocks
  • Large migrations where partner capacity and AWS funding programmes help
  • Teams that want the deepest hiring pool

Think twice if…

  • Your estate is mostly Microsoft (Windows, SQL Server, Microsoft 365): Azure licence benefits may cost less
  • You can't set up tagging and budgets from day one; spend becomes hard to trace

Typical projects

  1. Landing zone and account setup4–8 weeks
  2. Migration of a 50–200 server estate4–9 months
  3. Serverless application build8–20 weeks
  4. Managed operations and FinOpsOngoing · 3–12 months

Typical ranges, not quotes. Scope, data and team size move them most.

Roles you'll hire

  • Cloud architect
  • DevOps / platform engineer
  • Cloud security engineer
  • FinOps analyst
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Questions to ask a vendor

  1. 1Which AWS Competencies and partner tier do you hold, and how many certified engineers?
  2. 2Can you show a migration of similar size, and what it cost to run afterwards?
  3. 3Will you apply for AWS migration funding on our behalf?
  4. 4How will you set up tagging, budgets and cost alerts?

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