3 REASONS TO OPT FOR AMAZON’S CLOUD For Magento Hosting B Y
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We exist in a world where every second is accountable, and in the e-commerce business, even a millisecond is of prime importance. Slow response time from your websites page directly results in your conversion rate. In fact, it may also reduce significant traffic. Scalability is one of the primary features that Magento offers, but a complete hosting configuration is a key to effortless scaling when the store grows.  Magento is a perfect open source content management platform for e-commerce websites. To make your Magento store more stable and seamless, it’s suggested to run it on t appropriate hardware.
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Although there are several small and large companies providing cloud-based services to their clients, the market is mostly dictated by Amazon’s AWS Google’s Google Cloud IBM Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure
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WHY CHOOSE AMAZON’S WEB SERVICES? AWS gives a robust global infrastructure for Magento deployments which makes sure that the clients never experience downtime. Some of the principal services proposed by AWS are: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon CloudFront Elastic Load Balancing Auto Scaling Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Amazon ElastiCache Amazon Route 53 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
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Here are the key reasons to opt Amazon’s AWS services for your Magento website:
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Amazon AWS offers the following approach to secure the AWS infrastructure for your Magento website:
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AWS has achieved ISO 27001 certification. It has been declared as a Level 1 service provider under the Data Security Standard (DSS) and Payment Card Industry (PCI). AWS has also completed multiple Type II audits of SAS70. Following which it now issues a Service Organization Controls 1 (SOC 1) report, published under both the ISAE 3402 and SSAE 16 professional standards. For physical security, Amazon has spent years on designing and managing large-scale data centers. AWS infrastructure is maintained with these data centers which are controlled by Amazon. Unauthorized access to these data centers is restricted by various layers of security and only those with legitimate business are aware of its original location. The users of AWS can encrypt their business and personal data within the AWS cloud. They can also publish redundancy procedures and backup of the services to render their customers with a greater understanding of how their data flows
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Traditional hosting usually takes 48 to 96 hours to get the servers ready. But with AWS, this time shrinks dramatically. Such a deployment speed comes handy when you need to update your Magento or need to run big promotions. Amazon has invested millions in their data centers to provide the best infrastructure to their clients. Due to this, the users receive an incredible bandwidth and exceedingly scalable storage system with a reliability of 99.99%.
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One of the most significant features of Amazon AWS is its flexibility. The communication of all AWS services works collectively in an excellent manner. AWS offers a great API which delivers an ability to build new instances ( server ), load balancer, external database ( RDS ) and storage ( NFS ) on request/demand. All these services can be readily utilized as soon as they created. To meet the requirement of extra server power, space, and memory, Â the instance type can be changed, and you are good to go. Server managing was nevermore simpler and quicker.
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