Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?

Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.

Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances.

Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis.

Cloud computing with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. 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.