An AWS technician gives us a tour of a data center—see what it's like inside
Fidel Contreras is a data center technician lead with Amazon Web Services. Follow him and his colleagues on a tour inside a data center and find out what it’s like to work there.
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- In the early days of operating Amazon.com we experienced first-hand how hard and expensive it was to provision and manage IT infrastructure, and how this distracted talented teams from actually innovating. In 2006, AWS was launched to rethink IT infrastructure completely, so that anyone—even a kid in a college dorm room—could access the same powerful technology as the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies.
- Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like AWS.
- AWS has more than 240 fully featured services for a wide range of technologies and industries. This broad set of global products include compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management tools.
- At AWS, security is our top priority. AWS is architected to be the most secure global cloud infrastructure on which to build, migrate, and manage applications and workloads. This is backed by the trust of our millions of customers, including the most security sensitive organizations like government, healthcare, and financial services.
- Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. Read our case studies to explore how customers are using AWS cloud solutions to build applications with increased flexibility, scalability, security, and reliability.
- AWS is focuses on efficiency across all aspects of our infrastructure, from the design of our data centers and hardware, to modeling the performance of our operations. By continually improving our efficiency, we can reduce the amount of energy needed to operate our data centers.
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