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!