AWS is an online service that provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to its customers. AWS offers its customers two versions of IaaS, Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and two versions of PaaS, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
AWS offers several advantages over DigitalOcean. First, AWS has more than 50 million active users and over 1 million customers using AWS services each day. Second, AWS has more than 1 million customer accounts available in the United States, making it easier for businesses to get started with AWS.
Third, AWS offers more than 54 million active EC2 instances, which is more than any other provider. Finally, AWS has a larger customer base of developers and engineers, which gives businesses a wider pool of talent to work with.