Amazon Web Services (AWS)

“Amazon’s AWS, the leading infrastructure as a service clouds.”

Glimpse of AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web

services i.e., Cloud Computing.

AWS provides a wide range of services for its customers. Also, the AWS team continuously works

on service expansion with new features for betterment of customer satisfaction.

AWS offers services such as Compute, Storage, Database, Management tools, Security,

Networking, Analytics, etc.

With AWS, even the startup organizations can envision an enterprise-level infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services provides a Highly Reliable, Scalable, Low-Cost Infrastructure Platform in

the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

With Data Center Locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan and Australia, customers

across all industries are taking advantage of its benefits.

Solutions of AWS

10 Things you need to know prior to using Amazon Web Services

Selecting cloud service provider over the other varies and depends on the needs of each individual

customer and workloads.

1. Compute: AWS offers EC2 instances which can be tailored with a large number of options.

Supports both Linux and Windows platforms along with the services such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk

for app deployment, EC2 Container service, AWS Lambda, Auto scaling and load balancing options.

2. Secure: AWS is secure, durable technology platform with industry-recognized certification and

audit: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 3.2 Level 1, ISO 27017:2015,

SOC 1 (formerly referred as SAS 70 and/or SSAE 16) and SOC 2 audit report. The provided service

and data center have multiple layers of operational and physical security to ensure integrity and

safety of data.

3. Storage: AWS storage includes its Simple Storage (S3), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic File

System (EFS), Import/Export large volume data transfer service, Glacier archive backup and

Storage Gateway which integrates with on premise environments.

4. Networking: AWS offer “excellent” networking capabilities such as Virtual Private Cloud (VPC),

CloudFront, Direct Connect and Route 53 which allows the applications to be deployed on a local

or global level, relying on server load balancing components (AWS Elastic Load Balancing) and

direct network connectivity to link with on premise systems.

5. Databases: AWS support relational databases (Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and

Redshift) and NoSQL data bases (Amazon DynamoDB).

6. Cost Effective: AWS offers low, pay-as-you-go pricing with no up-front expenses or long-term

commitments. This enables us to build and manage a global infrastructure at scale and pass cost

saving benefits. AWS provides a price calculator to calculate the Ownership pricing.

7. Digitalization: AWS have incorporated machine learning tools and a number of features targeted

at the Internet of Things. AWS IoT provides a managed cloud platform that let customers to more

easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices such as cars, mobile, sensor

grids, etc. anywhere and anytime.

8. Agility and Instant Elasticity: AWS provides a massive global cloud infrastructure that allows

to quickly innovate, experiment and iterate. Instead of waiting weeks or months for hardware, we

can instantly deploy new applications, instantly scale up as your workload grows, and instantly

scale down based on demand. Whether need one virtual server or thousands, whether need them

for a few hours or 24/7, we still only pay for what we use.

9. Management Tools: AWS offers various monitoring and configuration tools such as CloudWatch,

CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Config, OpsWorks, Service Catalog, Trusted Advisor, Managed

Services and Application Discovery Service.

10. Support: AWS offers 24/7 customer support on Account and Billing, Service Limit Increase,

Technical, etc. for any services. In addition, customers with some support plans have access to

additional features including AWS Trusted Advisor and an API for programmatic access to support

cases and Trusted Advisor.