Amazon Web Services

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings. AWS services can offer an organization tools such as compute power, database storage and content delivery services.AWS launched in 2006 from the internal infrastructure that Amazon.com built to handle its online retail operations. AWS was one of the first companies to introduce a pay-as-you-go cloud computing model that scales to provide users with compute, storage or throughput as needed. AWS offers many different tools and solutions for enterprises and software developers that can be used in data centers in up to 190 countries. Groups such as government agencies, education institutions, nonprofits and private organizations can use AWS services.

Features of AWS

1.Mobile Friendly Access

Mobile friendly access includes two things:

AWS Mobile Hub This Amazon Web Services feature is for both Android and IOS. AWS Mobile Hub supports and guides you towards the suitable and compatible feature for your app. It includes a console that helps you to access AWS services which include development, testing, and monitoring of the mobile application. It includes lucid ways to select and configure mobile app features like content delivery and push notifications.
AWS Mobile SDK By this AWS feature, your app can directly access Amazon Web Services such as DynamoDB, S3, and Lambda. The Mobile SDK supports IOS, Android, Web, React Native, Unity and many more.

2. Serverless Cloud Functions

Amazon API and Amazon Gateway help users by running their code and scaling it. The only thing a user has to do is to upload the code with the help of mobile phone. Users do not take care of the servers as the whole process is then managed by AWS. Apps which are made to deliver a great experience to the users. We want many tasks to be performed at once and for that, we need back-end code that runs and responds to the code. Managing the infrastructure to host back-end codes requires size, provision and lots of servers. AWS Serverless Cloud Functions help the user in such a way that they should focus only on building the application. Server management is done by AWS along with it, it performs scaling, patching and administration of the infrastructure.

3.Databases

Amazon provides databases as requiredment and the database provided by them are completely managed by them. Some of the databases and their uses are
Relational Database — Transactional Purposes.
Non-Relational Database – Internet Scale Applications.
Data Warehouse — Analytics.
In-memory data Store — Caching & Real-time workloads.
Graph Database — Application with highly connected data.

4.Storage

Storage is one of the AWS features, provide by Amazon is economical, flexible and easy to use. The storage provided by AWS can be used independently as well as in combination to meet your requirement. The following are the types of storage provided by AWS.

  • Amazon Glacier — Used for long-term storage.
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service — Provides scalable object storage for archival, analytics and data backup.
  • The Amazon EBS — Provides block level storage volumes for persistent data storage for use with EC-2 instances.

5.Security and Compliance

As many companies rely on AWS, Amazon provides maximum security to the data provided by them. AWS features allows the customer to scale and innovate. Customers here pay only for the service they use. Moreover, there are no upfront expenses.

The security groups of AWS associate with EC2 instances. They provide security at the protocol and port access level. In AWS there are security rules that filter traffic coming into and out of an EC2 instance. Rules comprise four fields which are:

  • Type
  • Protocol
  • Port Range
  • Source

6.AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace is an online store where a customer can immediately search for the suitable software or can buy it for their business. They can use Marketplace’s one-click deployment and launch the required software by paying only for what they will use.

It was launched in 2012 to accelerate the growth of AWS from Third party providers. AWS provides commercial as well as free software and services to support the customers business.