Overview Of AWS

Introduction

This would be a series of articles and in this article, we would talk about AWS introduction and few important services as well

It will cover the following things,

  • Pricing of AWS - Quick Overview
  • AWS Cloud Number Facts
  • AWS Cloud Use Cases
  • AWS Global Infrastructure
  • AWS Regions
  • How to choose an AWS Region?
  • AWS Availability Zones
  • AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations)
  • Tour of the AWS Console
  • AWS Acceptable Use Policy

Pricing of AWS - Quick Overview

AWS has 3 pricing fundamentals, following the pay-as-you-go pricing model

  • Compute: Pay for compute time
  • Storage: Pay for data stored in the Cloud
  • Data transfer OUT of the Cloud: Data transfer IN is free
  • Solves the expensive issue of traditional IT

AWS Cloud Number Facts

  • In 2019, AWS had $35.02billion in annual revenue
  • AWS accounts for 47% of the market in 2019 (Microsoft is 2nd with 22%)
  • Pioneer and Leader of the AWS Cloud Market for the 9th consecutive year
  • Over 1,000,000 active users Solve the expensive issue of traditional IT

AWS Cloud Use Cases

AWS enables you to build sophisticated, scalable applications

  • Applicable to a diverse set of industries
  • Use cases include
  • Enterprise IT, Backup & Storage, Big Data Analytics
  • Website hosting, Mobile & Social Apps
  • Gaming

AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS Regions

  • AWS has Regions all around the world
  • Names can be us-east-1, eu-west-3…
  • A region is a cluster of data centers
  • Most AWS services are region-scoped

How to choose an AWS Region?

  • Compliance with data governance and legal requirements: data never leaves a region without your explicit permission
  • Proximity to customers: reduced latency
  • Available services within a Region: new services and new features aren’t available in every Region
  • Pricing: Pricing varies from region to region and is transparent on the service pricing page

AWS Availability Zones

  • Each region has many availability zones (usually 3, min is 2, max is 6). Example:
    • ap-southeast-2a
    • ap-southeast-2b
    • ap-southeast-2c
  • Each availability zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity
  • They’re separate from each other so that they’re isolated from disasters
  • They’re connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking

AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations)

  • Amazon has 216 Points of Presence (205 Edge Locations & 11 Regional Caches) in 84 cities across 42 countries
  • Content is delivered to end users with lower latency

Tour of the AWS Console

  • AWS has Global Services:
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Route 53 (DNS service)
  • CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
  • WAF (Web Application Firewall)
  • Most AWS services are Region-scoped:
  • Amazon EC2 (Infrastructure as a Service)
  • Elastic Beanstalk (Platform as a Service)
  • Lambda (Function as a Service)
  • Recognition (Software as a Service)
  • Region Table: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services

AWS Acceptable Use Policy

  • https://aws.amazon.com/aup/
  • No Illegal, Harmful, or Offensive Use or Content
  • No Security Violations
  • No Network Abuse
  • No E-Mail or Other Message Abuse

In this article, we talked about the overview and basics of AWS, in the next article of the series we would talk about AWS-specific services in detail.

Stay tuned for the next series of articles, hope you see you guys again soon.

Happy learning!


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