(uskings.us) Owning almost half the world’s public cloud infrastructure market, Amazon is the clear market leader. Amazon reported Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue of $12.7 billion for Q4 2020, compared to $9.95 billion for Q4 2019. AWS revenue grew 28% in the quarter.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide a variety of basic abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools.
One of these services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. AWS’s version of virtual computers emulates most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM)
The AWS technology is implemented at server farms throughout the world, and maintained by the Amazon subsidiary. Fees are based on a combination of usage (known as a “Pay-as-you-go” model), hardware, operating system, software, or networking features chosen by the subscriber required availability, redundancy, security, and service options.
Subscribers can pay for a single virtual AWS computer, a dedicated physical computer, or clusters of either. As part of the subscription agreement, Amazon provides security for subscribers’ systems. AWS operates from many global geographical regions including 6 in North America.
Amazon reported Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue of $12.7 billion for Q4 2020, compared to $9.95 billion for Q4 2019. AWS revenue grew 28% in the quarter. Amazon as a whole had their first quarter over the $100 billion marks, at $125.56 billion. That’s an increase of 44% year-over-year, and beating predictions of $119.7 billion.
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