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AWS Cloud Computing Platform

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Various AWS services are listed

Compute Services

  1. EC2 or Elastic Compute Cloud – Virtual machine for which user has OS level control.
  2. AWS Lambda —  Run program functions in the cloud.

Storage Services

  1. Amazon Glacier- Low-cost storage service for data archiving and backup.
  2. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)- Provides block-level storage for Amazon EC2. EBS volumes are network-attached and are free from the life of an instance.
  3. Amazon S3 – S3 or simple storage service. It provides object storage.
  4. Cloud Front – It is a CDN or content delivery network to distribute the inert and active web content. For example, .html, .php files to clients

Security Services

  1. IAM (Identity and Access Management) —  IAM helps to manage users, assign policies, form groups to manage multiple users.
  2. Certificate Manager —  Offers free SSL certificates for your domains that are managed by Route53.

Database Services

  1. Amazon RDS- Set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
  2. Amazon DynamoDB- Fully managed NoSQL database service.
  3. Amazon ElastiCache- Deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud.
  4. Amazon RedShift - Data warehousing solution to perform OLAP queries.

Management Services

  1. CloudWatch — Monitor AWS environments like EC2, RDS instances, and CPU utilization. It also triggers alarms depends on various metrics.
  2. CloudFormation — It turns infrastructure into the cloud. Use templates to get whole production environment in minutes.
  3. OpsWorks — Automated Chef/Puppet deployments on AWS environment.

AWS Features

  • Available – Multiple redundancy to address one component failure. Workload is shifted to a operational replacement. Thus, connect resources in geographically isolated locations and also address failures for a complete region during disaster.
  • Scalable –Computing resources as per user’s need, on-demand. Offering should be too low as against costs involved in client running workload on own.
  • High levels of security – maintain high standards in IT security. Taking responsibility for AWS networking and compute infrastructure security and, relieving customer of these tasks.  Applying AWS Shared Responsibility Model which outlines AWS being responsible for the cloud infrastructure only and customer for rest.
  • Metering mode– AWS is a self-service system to be used by anyone and with payment only for resource usage. Automated billing as per the usage.
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