6 reasons why your internet startup should be using Amazon Web Services

Y Combinator co-founder, Paul Graham, defines a startup as “a company designed to grow fast.” The definition highlights one of the hardest problems internet startups traditionally faced at the outset: weighing infrastructure capacity and cost.

Amazon changed things up when it launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. It used economies of scale to offer services — many of them developed for internal use and opened up to the public later — to take the guess-work out of upfront infrastructure investments.

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