Amazon Web Services

Question:

Cloud computing provider Amazon Web Services. It is important to understand the different solutions offered because they provide the foundation for all of the other components of cloud computing services.

Summarize a well-known cloud provider.

Describe at least 5 services offered.

Include the features and functionality provided.

Describe how the pricing for each service is determined.

include references for all resources used.

 

What are Amazon Web Services?

It is a subpart of amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies, and governments, on a paid subscription.

Companies using AWS:

1. Kelloggs.
2. Netflix.
3. Robbie.
4. Airbnb.
5. Amazon.
6. Adobe.

Benefits of Amazon web services:

1. Easy to use.
2. Flexibility.
3. Reliability.
4. Scalability.
5. Cost-effective.
6. Security.

 

AWS services:

1) Compute Services:

These services help developers build, deploy, and scale an application within the cloud platform. The services are EC2, Lambda, Elastic container service, Elastic load balancer, Light sail, and Elastic beanstalk.

2) Storage services:

AWS provides a storage service for archiving data. Also, its main advantage is disaster data recovery with high durability. The storage services are S3, Glacier, EBS, Storage Gateway.

3) Database services:

It offers highly secure, cost-efficient, and scalable database instances within the cloud. The services are RDS, Dynamo DB, Elastic cache, Amazon Redshift.

4) Networking services:

It provides a secure cloud platform and VPN with high transfer speed. Services provided are VPC, Route R3, Direct Connect, Cloud Front.

5) Developer tool services:

It helps a user to use, deploy, and run an application ASCII text file automatically. Some of the developer tool services are CodeStar, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy.

6) Security services:

This helps in monitoring a safe environment for the AWS resources by providing limited access to specific users. Services are LAM, KMS, Cognito, WAF.

7) Management tools services:

It helps in optimizing costs, minimizing risks, and automate all the resources running on the AWS infrastructure. The services are CloudWatch, CloudFormation, AutoScaling, CloudTrail.

8) Migration Services:

Amazon cloud service helps in migrating data from the data warehouses to AWS. And helps customers to migrate a database to another.

 

Pricing for the services:

When it comes to the pricing of all the services mentioned above, the pricing will be influenced by certain factors like:

The quality of the service provided.

The age of resources i.e., how long the resources will be provided.

The cost of the maintenance which takes them to maintain it.

Also, the resources’ initial cost.

There are also certain terminologies for pricing like:

1. 1. 1. Fixed Pricing Models.
      2. Pay-per-use Model.
      3. Subscription.

 

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