Amazon AWS - Overview

 

                                               

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platform provided by Amazon. It offers a variety of services and solutions for computing power, storage, and databases, among other functionalities, that enable organizations to scale and grow efficiently. Here’s an overview of key components and features of AWS:

 

 

Core Services

1. Compute:

   • Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): Provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It's designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
   • AWS Lambda: A serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources.
   • Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service): Fully managed container orchestration services.

2. Storage:

   • Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): Object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
   • Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store): Provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances.
   • Amazon Glacier: Low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup.

3. Databases:

   • Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service): Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
   • Amazon DynamoDB: A fast and flexible NoSQL database service.
   • Amazon Aurora: A MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud.

 

 

Networking & Content Delivery

• Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
• Amazon CloudFront: A fast content delivery network (CDN) service.

Security, Identity, & Compliance

• AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management): Helps you securely control access to AWS services and resources.
• AWS Shield: Managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection.
• AWS KMS (Key Management Service): Makes it easy to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data.

Analytics & Machine Learning

• Amazon Redshift: Fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools.
• Amazon Athena: Interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
• Amazon SageMaker: Fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly.

Management & Governance

• AWS CloudFormation: Lets you model and set up your Amazon Web Services resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications.
• AWS CloudWatch: A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS.
• AWS Config: Provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in your AWS account.

Developer Tools

• AWS CodePipeline: Continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.
• AWS CodeBuild: Fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy.
• AWS CodeDeploy: Automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises.

Cost Management

• AWS Cost Explorer: Enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
• AWS Budgets: Allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets that alert you when you exceed your thresholds.

AWS is known for its reliability, scalability, and broad range of services, making it a leading choice for businesses of all sizes looking to leverage cloud technology for various applications and workloads.