The AWS website has all the informations you need. The http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ section provides 5 diagrams : ==

The AWS website has all the informations you need. The http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ section provides 5 diagrams : ==> Web Application Hosting : http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_web_01.pdf http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_... ==> Content and Media Serving : http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_media_02.pdf http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_... ==> Batch Processing : http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_batch_03.pdf http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_... ==> Fault tolerance and High Availability : http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_ftha_04.pdf http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_... ==> Large Scale Processing and Huge Data sets : http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_largescale_05.pdf http://d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net/architecturecenter/AWS_... These are the main usages a startup can make of AWS. Of course, depending on your core business, you will need to focus on specific parts.