Amazon Web Services(AWS) is a cloud service from Amazon, which provides services in the form of building blocks, these building blocks can be used to create and deploy any type of application in the cloud.
Amazon Web Services(AWS) is a cloud service from Amazon, which provides services in the form of building blocks, these building blocks can be used to create and deploy any type of application in the cloud.
These services or building blocks are designed to work with each other, and result in applications that are sophisticated and highly scalable.
What are the services provided by AWS?
Each type of service is categorized under a domain, the few domains which are widely used are:
Compute Services
The Compute domain includes services related to compute workloads, it includes the following services:
Storage Services
The Storage domain includes services related data storage, it includes the following services:
Database Services
The Database domain is used for database related workloads, it includes the following services:
Migration Services
The Migration domain is used for transferring data to or from the AWS Infrastructure, it includes the following services:
Networking and Content Delivery Services
The Networking and Content Delivery domain is used for isolating your network infrastructure, and content delivery is used for faster delivery of content. It includes the following services:
Management Tools
The Management Tools domain consists of services which are used to manage other services in AWS, it includes the following services:
Security & Identity, Compliance Services
The Security & Identity, Compliance domain consist of services which are used to manage to authenticate and provide security to your AWS resources. It consists of the following services:
Messaging Services
The Messaging domain consists of services which are used for queuing, notifying or emailing messages. It consists of the following domains:
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine.
AWS has the largest and most dynamic community, with millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners globally. Customers across virtually every industry and of every size, including startups, enterprises, and public sector organizations, are running every imaginable use case on AWS. The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes thousands of systems integrators who specialize in AWS services and tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) who adapt their technology to work on AWS.
AWS has the most extensive global cloud infrastructure. No other cloud provider offers as many Regions with multiple Availability Zones connected by low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant networking. AWS has 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and 9 more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). The AWS Region and Availability Zone model has been recognized by Gartner as the recommended approach for running enterprise applications that require high availability.
