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AWS Cloud History


AWS market related facts:

  • In 2023, $90 billion annual revenue.
  • It accounts for 31% of the market in QI 2024 and Azure is second with 25%.
  • Leader and Pioneer for last 13 consecutive years in market.
  • Over 1 million active users.

AWS Cloud Use Cases

  • Enable you to build sophisticated, scalable applications
  • Applicable to a diverse set of industries
  • Use cases include:
    • Enterprise IT, Backup & Storage, Big Data analytics
    • Website hosting, Mobile & Social Apps
    • Gaming

AWS Global Infrastructure

  • Regions - cluster of data centers, services are scoped to regions in AWS.
  • Availability Zones
  • Data Centers
  • Edge Locations/Points of Presence
  • website to check it: https://infrastructure.aws/

Rules to choose AWS Region:

  • Compliance - data governance and legal requirements. (in and out of data is controlled by country and restricted to that region only) Need permission for access and transfer.
  • Proximity to customers - reduce latency.
  • Available services within  a Region
  • Pricing - Every region has it's own rate charge.

Availability Zones

  • Region can has min 3 and max 6 availability zones.
  • AZ is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking and connectivity.
  • These Availability Zones are separated from each other for disaster management. 
  • These Availability Zones are already connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking.

Edge Locations (AWS Points of Presence)

  • Amazon has 400+ Edge locations, 10+ Regional Caches in 90+ cities across 40+ countries.
  •  Content is delivered to end users with lower latency.

AWS Console:

  • AWS has Global Services:
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • Route 53 (DNS service)
    • CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
    • WAF (Web Application Firewall)
  • Most AWS services are Region-scoped:
    • Amazon EC2 (Infrastructure as a Service)
    • Elastic Beanstalk (Platform as a Service)
    • Lambda (Function as a Service)
    • Rekognition (Software as a Service)
  • Region Table: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services
Aws provide access to a service through search bar, service list by category, by alphabetic order and other way. Just remember all services are region-scoped and very few are global.

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