Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest public cloud platform, offering compute, storage, databases, analytics, AI/ML (including Amazon Bedrock) and hundreds of other services billed pay-as-you-go. GTM engineers use it to host scrapers, enrichment pipelines, databases and serverless functions (Lambda) behind their GTM stack. Pricing is per service and usage, so cost control depends on monitoring and budgets.
AWS
Cloud infrastructure — compute, storage, databases — plus Bedrock for hosting production AI agents
Features
- Compute: EC2, Lambda, containers
- Storage and databases: S3, RDS, DynamoDB
- AI/ML: Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker
- Analytics and data pipelines
- Global regions and mature security/compliance
- Pay-as-you-go with savings plans and reserved pricing
Pricing
Free plan
Pay-as-you-go per service; free plan credits for new customers; savings plans for commitments.
Pay-as-you-go
Custom quote
Savings Plans and reserved capacity discounts
Per-service usage pricing
Not independently checked yet. See the vendor's pricing page
Strengths and limits
Strengths
- Unmatched breadth of services
- Scales from prototype to massive workloads
- Strong security and mature core services
Limits
- Steep learning curve and complex console
- Billing is hard to predict; surprise charges reported
- Vendor lock-in risk
Best for and not for
Best for
- Engineering teams hosting custom GTM infrastructure
- Companies needing broad cloud services in one provider
Not for
- Non-technical teams wanting a managed, fixed-price tool
- Small projects better served by simpler hosts
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Works with
Support
- Help center and docs
- Community forum
- Priority support
- Dedicated account manager
Frequently asked questions
- Does AWS have a free tier?
- New customers can get credits on AWS's Free plan; terms change over time, so check aws.amazon.com/free for the current offer.
- How is AWS priced?
- Each service is billed by usage (compute time, storage, requests, data transfer). Budgets and cost alerts help avoid surprise charges.
Sources
Details last updated 16 Oct 2026.
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