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 Availability Zones
• AWS Data Centers
• AWS Edge Locations / Points of Presence
• https://infrastructure.aws/

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!