Business Applications

Companies of all sizes are running business applications in the cloud to lower costs, deploy more quickly, and simplify infrastructure management. AWS offers a reliable and flexible cloud infrastructure platform that enables customers to run all types of business applications, from small departmental solutions to mission-critical applications that automate company-wide business processes.

Customers deploying business applications on AWS can choose between installing and configuring their own applications or launching entire software stacks from Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and IBM in minutes by choosing from a large selection of pre-configured virtual machines images. In both cases, customers may be able to use their existing software licenses in the AWS cloud with no additional license fees. Check the Get Started section below for additional details.

In addition to deploying applications to the AWS cloud, customers can also subscribe to business applications that run on AWS and are offered as a service (SaaS) by software vendors such as Adobe, Infor, ESRI, Splunk, Consona, Coupa, among others.

Customer Case Studies

		Recovery.Gov
Achieved 70% cost savings by moving its entire Oracle stack to the AWS Cloud	Reduced time-to-market from 2 months to 3 days by running SAP Dev & Test on AWS	Migrated Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server Apps to the AWS cloud in 22 days

Popular Business Applications on AWS

Benefits of Using AWS for Business Applications

Lower TCO for your applications	AWS has reduced its prices 19 times in the last 5 years driven by fast innovation and global scale. With AWS, customers can save money by avoiding up-front capital expenses and paying only for resources they use. They can also save time and gain agility by reducing the time required to provision infrastructure from months or weeks to minutes. In fact, analyst research suggests that the TCO savings in the public cloud may be as high as 60% compared to a traditional enterprise datacenter.
Easily connect existing datacenter	AWS customers can have the best of both worlds: they can leverage services like AWS Direct Connect and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to build connections between their datacenters and the AWS Cloud and move workloads between them seamlessly.
Serve all your end-users	With Amazon EC2 and our Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing services you can automatically add thousands of virtual machines and seamlessly scale to handle virtually any number of users.
Easy to move data & apps in and out	AWS provides an open and flexible platform that allows customers to move their data in and out anytime and run virtually any commercial application. With AWS, customers can choose the operating system, programming language, or database that makes the most sense for their businesses. AWS provides tools such as AWS Import/Export and VM Import to help customers migrate data and virtual machines images.
Built for enterprise security standards	AWS is a secure, durable technology platform with industry-recognized certifications and audits such as SOC 1 Type 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FISMA Moderate, HIPAA, and ITAR compliant controls. AWS uses the same, proven approaches to security that enterprises have been using for decades including physical security, network separation, and server & storage isolation. AWS customers have control over their data: they own the data, not us; they can encrypt their data at rest and in motion, just as they would in their own infrastructure.
Global infrastructure for global enterprises	AWS offers a global cloud infrastructure platform that enables customers worldwide to provision computing resourcing on-demand. AWS is focused on expanding its global infrastructure to help customers achieve lower latency and better performance.

Next Steps

Get Started with AWS	Architect Your Application	Develop Your Application	Deploy Your Application
Contact an AWS Account Manager	Visit the Architecture Center	Visit our Developer Centers: Mobile, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Windows & .Net	Visit the Security & Compliance Center
Visit our Economics Center	Read the “Microsoft SharePoint on AWS Reference Architecture” Whitepaper	Sign up for AWS Developer Training	Sign up for AWS Systems Operations Training
Learn More about AWS’s Products	Sign up for AWS Architect Training	Find a System Integrator or ISV	Read the “Amazon’s Corporate IT Deploys SharePoint 2010 to the AWS Cloud” Whitepaper