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Amazon Web Services

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a vast and versatile cloud computing platform offering a wide array of services. These include compute power, database storage, content delivery networks, and numerous other functionalities. AWS provides scalable and cost-effective solutions for businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Its extensive service catalog covers areas such as machine learning, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), and serverless computing, making it a one-stop shop for cloud-based infrastructure and application development.

Amazon Web Services belongs toPaaScategory.

663websites

use it — 26% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#1of 26

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 66)

355public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

Used on 26% of the websites we scan.

20.59% of all websites we track run Amazon Web Services▼ 0.02 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Amazon Web Services sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

47PerformancePooraverage site: 5088AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8992Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 8% slower than the average site

Amazon Web Services sites
4.6 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Amazon Web Services sites load in 3.2–6.6 s. Home page weight: 3.9 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 307 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services50%
  • Cloudflare18%
  • Fastly4%
  • Google Cloud4%
  • Other25%
United States 64%Canada 18%Germany 3%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software58%
Business Services11%
Software as a Service (SaaS)7%
Educational Resources4%

Share of 355 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

32% of graded sites pass

24of 76 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not Amazon Web Services. 76 public sites graded so far.

How Amazon Web Services sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Amazon Web Services sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Amazon CloudFront4×AWS Certificate Manager4×Amazon S34×Piwik PRO Core2×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Amazon Web Services on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 663 Amazon Web Services sites that run the whole stack.

9 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Amazon Web Services + Amazon CloudFront + AWS Certificate Manager + Amazon S3

8.7%58 of 663 sites
#2

Amazon Web Services + Amazon S3 + Tailwind CSS

4.4%29 of 663 sites
#3

Amazon Web Services + Amazon S3 + Contentful

3.6%24 of 663 sites
#4

Amazon Web Services + Amazon S3 + Marko

3.5%23 of 663 sites
#5

Amazon Web Services + Tailwind CSS + Turbopack

3%20 of 663 sites
#6

Amazon Web Services + Amazon CloudFront + Atlassian Statuspage

3%20 of 663 sites
#7

Amazon Web Services + Tailwind CSS + Marko

2.6%17 of 663 sites
#8

Amazon Web Services + Amazon CloudFront + Unpkg

2.3%15 of 663 sites
#9

Amazon Web Services + AWS Certificate Manager + Amazon ALB

2.3%15 of 663 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 663 Amazon Web Services sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager63%Google Analytics56%Linkedin Insight Tag28%Facebook Pixel24%Microsoft Advertising19%DoubleClick Floodlight18%Linkedin Ads12%OneTrust18%HubSpot15%
Tag managerAnalyticsAdvertisingCookie consentMarketing

Similar tools in its category

PaaS: 66 tools known, 26 seen in our scans

Vercel141 sitesAlternativeNetlify58 sitesAlternativeAzure52 sitesAlternativePantheon50 sitesAlternativeWP Engine21 sitesAlternativeKinsta20 sitesAlternativeWordPress VIP10 sitesAlternativeGitHub Pages7 sitesAlternativeAcquia Cloud Platform21 sitesUsed togetherAtlassian Statuspage20 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Amazon Web Services with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Built on a platform 289Complements another tool 58Integrates with another 19Needs another tool 18Overlaps with another 4

Websites using Amazon Web Services

663 websites use Amazon Web Services: 26% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Amazon Web Services

How many websites use Amazon Web Services?
We found Amazon Web Services on 663 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (26%). 355 of them have a public status page.
What is Amazon Web Services often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Amazon Web Services is often found alongside Amazon CloudFront (50.5% of its sites), AWS Certificate Manager (41% of its sites), Linkedin Insight Tag (28.4% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Amazon Web Services?
Other paas tools we recognize include Vercel, Netlify, Azure, Pantheon.

Is your website built with Amazon Web Services?

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