AWS (Amazon Web Services)

What is aws?

AWS is a Cloud computing company that has developed an essential part of businesses across all markets. It is the most widespread form. It improves productivity and offers relief for any number of business practices. Back in the 2000s, companies were completely reliant on bought servers, and those servers had limited functionality and more prices. The more growth businesses expert, the more servers and optimization practices they needed. Obtaining those things proved inefficient, and, sometimes, prohibitively expensive. The benefits of it have resolved many of those problems. Enterprises using it have servers available rapidly, and it provides various workloads, enlarged storage options, and improved security measures.

Amazon Web Services is a set of web services that together make up a cloud computing platform, accessible over the Internet.  Amazon Web service is a set of products used for hosting or storage that targets to take the concern out of traditional hosting solutions. 

Amazon Web Services was started in 2002. The company threw an idea to sell its unused infrastructure as a service, or as an offering to customers. Time to time Amazon hosted a huge collection of customer input about it. Now Amazon web services provide 160 different products and services to their customers and that number will probably increase, given the rate at which Amazon builds upon and tweaks it.

AWS provides the following products and services to their customers.

AWS Services

AWS has become a consistent cloud computing technology. Here are some of it’s services offerings:

Amazon S3

This tool is used for internet back up, and it’s the inexpensive storage option in the object-storage type. The best part: you can get the stored data from almost anywhere whenever it required.

AWS Data Transfer Products

AWS data transfer products are migration, data collection, and data transfer products that help you collect data seamlessly. They also allow us to monitor and evaluate data in real-time.

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

It provides a secure and resizable computing capacity based on requirements. The service is designed to make web-scale cloud computing more reachable.

Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Services)

It is a notification tool that sends messages to a large number of subscribers via email or SMS. The different types of notification can be sent through SNS like send alarms, service notifications, and other messages to call attention to important information.

Amazon KMS (Key Management System)

This is a security tool that uses 256-bit encryption for data and also protections from hackers and cyber-attacks. AWS Key Management Service is a managed service that makes it easy to create and control customer master keys (CMKs), the encryption keys used to encrypt the data. It also integrated with other services that encrypt the data.

Amazon Lambda

This service runs code depending on particular events and manages the different dependent resources. You need neither managing nor provisioning servers, and how much you pay depends on how long it takes to execute the code. It saves a lot of money compared with other services that charge hourly rates.

Route 53

It is a Domain Name System service in the cloud that doesn’t require to maintain a separate DNS account. It provides facility to developers and businesses a really reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names.

There are some advantages and disadvantages of AWS.

Advantages:

Following are some AWS benefits:

  • Easy to Use

AWS’s platform is clearly expressed and even a beginner can use it. It is possible due to the AWS Management Console and also well-documented web services.

  • No Capacity Limits

Companies launch different projects and estimate what capacity they will need. AWS offers them by providing the required capacity at a minimum cost. The customers can change their capacity at any time and only pay to use. 

  • Provides Speed and Agility

AWS provides the servers within minutes. The customer plans the requirement and can proceed without talking to anyone as it is easy and flexible. AWS provides us with tools that help us to reduce the time on a task by using Auto Scaling, AWS Tools, and Elastic Load Balancing based on demand.

  • Secure and Reliable

AWS provides an end-to-end approach that secures and strengthens infrastructure. Amazon Web Service provides security at a lower cost. It helps to protect privacy as it is stored in Its data centers. Its infrastructure is designed to keep your data safe no matter what size of data.

Disadvantages

These are the limitations of Amazon Web Services:

  • Restricts resource usage

Amazon also restricts resource usage, it all depending on the region. So if any customer in the area that severely restricts a specific resource, they don’t have many resources.

  • Security Limitations

Security is the main feature but It limits some of its features which cannot be changed at all. For example, under EC2 VPC, which constrained to 100 security groups.

  • Technical Support Fee

It charges for instant support and customer should select any packages among 3:

  • Developer
  • Business
  • Enterprise
  • General cloud Computing Issues

It does have general cloud computing issues when moving to a cloud such as downtime, limited control, and backup protection. However, these faults can be overcome after some time. It makes them a temporary issue.

Conclusion

AWS is the top-one choice in cloud computing services for businesses as per comparison with other cloud service providers. It also opens the doors for people who know how to develop its architecture and applications. It provides building blocks that you can collect rapidly to support any capacity. By using it, you’ll find a complete set of highly available services that are designed based on requirements to build scalable applications.

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