How AWS’s own silicon and software deliver cloud scalability

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the world’s first hyperscale cloud provider, and it remains the largest today. It represents around one-third of the global market, offering more than 200 infrastructure, platform and software services across 34 regions. To efficiently deliver so many services at such a scale, AWS designs and builds much of its own hardware.

The core AWS service is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute), which delivers virtual machines as a service. Not only is Amazon EC2 a service for customers, but it is also the underlying, hidden foundation for AWS’s platform and software services. The technology deployed in AWS data centers is often used by its parent company, Amazon, to deliver e-commerce, streaming and other consumer capabilities.