Innovation is a constant phenomenon in or world today. In order to keep up with the speed of innovation businesses must be able to adapt quickly. One of the factors restricting businesses from evolving is IT infrastructure.

IT infrastructure comprises of everthing a business needs to survive in this digital age like email providers, servers, media storage, processing units, softwares, routers and so on. Businesses that manage their own IT infrastructure have to dedicate a percentage of their workforce to manage and evolve this infrastructure as the business grows. This task is especially cumbersome for lean businesses without the capacity to dedicate staff for this purpose.

With the advent of “the cloud”, more and more businessess choose to “outsource” all or part of their IT infrastructure so that it is managed by a separate company. This company ensures that computing and network resources are available and shared efficiently. These “cloud” providers now provide exact billing strategies that ensure that you only pay for what you use (as opposed to investing in a 16GB ram server and only use it for emails). These days, we find that it is more cost effective especially for lean businesses to move to cloud architecture and focuse on their core competencies.

In the following Sections, I will delve into the AWS cloud, exploring and reviewing the services they provide and the practical use cases for small businesses.

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