Many companies have made large investments in on-premise, Microsoft-oriented network structures but are looking for ways to lower IT overhead. Furthermore, some companies are small, on the verge of growing, and looking to create an scalable IT infrastructure. Both classes of business benefit greatly from infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), the practice of using cloud-based, provider-managed systems in order to reduce IT costs and improve flexibility. Let us take a look at some of the advantages of using one of the leading IaaS platforms, Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a Windows Server environment.
