Breaking - Amazon Web Services

What all comes under Amazon Web Services?

Cloud is becoming more & more critical for most businesses as it provides flexibility, cost-effective on-demand storage. The cloud computing service deployment models give command and control over data.  

Types of service models:

1. Infrastructure as a Service: IaaS lets users use Virtual machines, storage & servers 

2. Platform as a Service: PaaS lets users develop & host apps on the platform 

3. Software as a Service: SaaS lets users access these applications across all devices
4. Network as a Service: NaaS allows users to access network infrastructure directly & securely. Help deploy custom routing protocols, manage & maintain network resources.
5. Identity as a Service: IDaaS manages user's digital identity which can be used during electronic transactions.

AWS has a huge size and presence in the cloud business today. It has two main products 

1. EC2: Virtual machine service 

2. S3: Amazon storage system (Simple Storage System)

Amazon Redshift: Cloud-based Data Warehouse. 

Amazon Glacier: Low-cost cold storage for infrequently accessed data for long retrieval times. 

Amazon Elastic Block Store: Store persistent data in block-level storage which is highly available even when EC2 is shut down.

Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2): Virtual servers know as instances for running applications. 

Database Management: Relational database service (RDS) for users to migrate and backup data.

Data Migration: To bring data from servers, databases & applications to AWS cloud. Migration Hub & Snowball.

Networking: Secluded segment of AWS cloud and balancing traffic. 

Security: IAM - Identity & Access management to create and control custom policies for multiple accounts.

Amazon Messaging Services: SQS Simple Queue service SNS Simple notification service SES Simple email service. 

Amazon Development tools: Command line interface & SDK's