AWS Systems Operations is the newest kid on the cloud computing block, and despite its relative youth (compared to Amazon's flagship product, AWS) this relatively new service has grown in the past year. But what is it? From business operations to development clusters, this post will show you everything that Systems Operations can do for your business. Let's start with the basics: Systems Operations is a service designed to make cloud services more predictable. For example, Auto Scaling keeps an application's infrastructure running smoothly, and helps ensure that your application is always available. Instead of building these features using custom scripts and homegrown tools, you can take advantage of Systems Operations from AWS. Too often organizations build their own internal systems for managing cloud-based applications. These tools require major ongoing investments in time and capital—resources that would be better spent elsewhere in the business.