What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)? and what makes it so popular?
What is AWS?
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services.
• It provides services such as databases, servers to build, deploy, and manage Websites on a remotely located virtual machine for which they charge.
• Customers include Netflix, Twitch, Facebook.
I'll be covering the following things in this article:
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Global Infrastructure
- Factors to consider picking a location
- Global vs Regional features
- Global services of AWS
Advantages:
• Fast
• Secure
• Reliable
• Cost-effective
• Well documented
• Auto-scaling is easy
• Pay for only what you use
• Setting up a new server or increasing storage space is simple and quick.
• Avoids the hassle of configuring and setting up physical hardware for a server or storage.
Disadvantages:
• Technical support fee.
• Common Cloud Computing Problems.
• Limitations of services based on region.
• The more complicated apps require more effort to design and maintain.
Global Infrastructure:
Regions: clustered data centers.
Availability Zones: Individual data centre that is self-contained, with its own maintenance and security.
Local Zones: Keeps critical services like as video and gaming, which need no latency, closer to end-users while simultaneously providing high bandwidth.
Primary Region: This is the Region of your account that you initially created..
AWS Wavelength: Allows developers to create apps with single-digit millisecond latency for end-users and mobile devices.
Edge location: the location closest to the user who is using an AWS service. Instead of a server, a tiny configuration is installed.
Factors to consider while picking a AWS Region:
Compliance: with data governance (Few people govern data to keep it local.)
Proximity to the customer: reduces latency for end-user
Availability of service: Certain services are limited in a few regions.
Pricing: Varies from region to region
Global vs Regional features:
Global features:
• Accessible to all regions.
• Changes made are implemented to all the regions that are inherited from the primary region
Regional features:
• Accessible to particular regions.
• Changes made are applied only to the corresponding region
Global services of AWS:
Identity and access management (IAM): is a framework of policies and technologies that facilitates the management of electronic or digital identities
CloudFront: fastest CDN service that securely delivers data, media, and APIs to customers globally with low latency
Route 53: DNS service.
Web Application Firewall (WAF): firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service
Resources:
Github repositry:
https://github.com/sarthaksavvy/100DaysOfAWS/blob/main/Day-1-Getting-Started-with-AWS.md
Pics:
For more information:
• Visit https://aws.amazon.com/
This is part of #100DaysOfCode of AWS started by Sarthaksavvy . You can visit his profile on Github
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