A hyperscaler is a company that provides cloud services on a massive scale — offering IT infrastructure such as computing power, storage, and networking that is flexible, highly available, and globally scalable. Common examples of hyperscalers include:
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Alibaba Cloud
IBM Cloud (on a somewhat smaller scale)
Massive scalability
They can scale their services virtually without limits, depending on the customer's needs.
Global infrastructure
Their data centers are distributed worldwide, enabling high availability, low latency, and redundancy.
Automation & standardization
Many operations are automated (e.g., provisioning, monitoring, billing), making services more efficient and cost-effective.
Self-service & pay-as-you-go
Customers usually access services via web portals or APIs and pay only for what they actually use.
Innovation platform
Hyperscalers offer not only infrastructure (IaaS), but also platform services (PaaS), as well as tools for AI, big data, or IoT.
Hosting websites or web applications
Data storage (e.g., backups, archives)
Big data analytics
Machine learning / AI
Streaming services
Corporate IT infrastructure
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a core service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers scalable computing capacity in the cloud. With EC2, users can create and configure virtual machines (instances) to run various applications, ranging from simple web servers to complex database clusters.
EC2 provides a wide range of instance types with varying CPU, memory, and networking capabilities to suit different workload requirements. These instances can be quickly launched, configured, and scaled, offering the flexibility to increase or decrease resources as needed.
Additionally, EC2 offers features such as security groups for network security, elastic IP addresses for static addressing, load balancers for traffic distribution, and Auto Scaling to automatically adjust the number of instances based on current demand. Overall, EC2 enables businesses to utilize computing resources on-demand in the cloud, facilitating cost optimization and scalability.
Simple Storage Service (S3) is a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), allowing users to store and access data in the cloud. S3 offers a scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure for storing objects such as files, images, videos, and backups.It operates on a bucket structure, where buckets are containers for the stored objects. These objects can be managed and retrieved using a RESTful API or various AWS tools and SDKs. S3 also provides features such as versioning, encryption, access control, and a variety of storage options that can scale based on the use case.