Sunday, September 27, 2015

Reliable Website Hosting With Amazon Web Services

When you are running your business on a website, you rely on your webpage being available for the public to see at all times. Imagine someone stumbles upon your webpage, the website is down and they cannot access it and see your products. In this instance, it is possible that the potential customer loses interest and never comes back. As a business owner this is the last thing you want to have happen. Amazon Web Services has become the front runner in the technology world for website hosting because of it's reliability and business owners can sleep soundly at night knowing their website will be running around the clock. Not only is it reliable but making the switch is fairly simple and Amazon provides a plethora of tutorials for beginners.

Another benefit of Amazon Web Services is the low cost. Amazon Web Services describes their service as a "pay for what you use" service, as opposed to other website hosting companies which will charge you a static monthly fee regardless of how much hosting your website is costing them. With Amazon Web Services, they will only charge you based on the amount of storage you use or the amount of viewers you bring in. This is extremely beneficial to smaller businesses that are not getting an enormous amount of views per day.

Overall, Amazon Web Services is a great tool to consider for hosting a website. Reliability is extremely beneficial to small business owners who want to ensure anyone who visits their site is guaranteed to see their product. The low-cost hosting allows small businesses to cut down on unnecessary costs in something as important as website hosting, while ensuring that they still have a quality experience.


  • A simple infographic from Amazon's AWS Summit conference about the benefits of their services.

Blog Citations:

 Benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 2nd Watch. (2013, January 28). Retrieved September    27, 2015, from http://2ndwatch.com/blog/benefits-of-amazon-web-services-aws/ 

 C., C. (2014, April 9). 5 Reasons Your Small Business Should Be Using Amazon Web Services.                       Retrieved September 27, 2015, from http://blog.infiniteskills.com/2014/04/5-reasons-small-                 business-amazon-web-services/