Increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days
SLA commitment of 99.99% availability for each Amazon EC2 region. Each region consists of at least 3 availability zones
The AWS Region/AZ model has been recognized by Gartner as the recommended approach for running enterprise applications that require high availability
Secure compute for your applications
With the virtualization resources are offloaded to dedicated hardware and software minimizing the attack surface
Lockdown security model prohibits administrative access eliminating possibility of human error and tampering
AWS supports 89 security standards and compliance certifications including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, and NIST 800-171, which is meaningfully more than any other cloud provider