Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
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What Is AWS And Why Is It Used?
• In the Journey of AWS, understanding the key concepts such as Regions, Availability
Zones, Global Network Infrastructure, etc is crucial. The fundamentals of AWS keep on
maintaining the applications reliable and scalable with services globally with coming to
a strategic deployment of resources for optimal performance and resilience. The
following are the some of the main fundamentals of AWS:
• Regions: AWS provide the services with respective division of regions. The regions are
divided based on geographical areas/locations and will establish data centers. Based
on need and traffic of users, the scale of data centers is depended to facilitate users
with low-latencies of servcies.
• Availability Zones (AZ): To prevent the Data centers for the Natural Calamities or
any other disasters. The Datacenters are established as sub sections with isolated
locations to enhance fault tolerance and disaster recovery management.
• Global Network Infrastructure: AWS ensures the reliability and scalability of
services through setting up its own AWS Network Infrastructure globally. It helps in
better management of data transmissions for optimized performance and security
reliance.
AWS Services
• In the rapid revolution of Cloud Computing, AWS facilitates with wide
variety of services respect to the fields and needs. The following are
the top AWS services that are in wide usage:
• Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) : It provides the Scalable
computing power via cloud allowing the users to run applications and
manage the workloads over their remotely.
• AWS offers a wide range of services and tools that can be easily
combined to build and deploy a variety of applications, making it highly
flexible.
• AWS offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing you to only pay for
the resources you actually use and avoid upfront costs and long-term
commitments.
Disadvantages
• AWS can be complex, with a wide range of services and features that
may be difficult to understand and use, especially for new users.
• While AWS provides many security features and tools, securing your
resources on AWS can still be challenging, and you may need to
implement additional security measures to meet your specific
requirements.