What is AWS Cloud Computing?

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What is AWS Cloud Computing?

AWS Cloud Computing is a cloud service from Amazon which offers ranges of IT services to help store, process and manage data. It can create and launch any type of application in the cloud. This service was launched by Amazon in 2006 and has been the most popular and used Cloud Computing platform.

Generally, AWS Cloud used in a wide range of industries and by millions of customers worldwide. This includes, startups, small to medium-sized businesses and large enterprises. For industries it is beneficially used in healthcare, finance, e-commerce, and plenty more of other businesses.

Types of Cloud Computing and Deployment Models

Essentially, there are three main types of of cloud computing services:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): This service provides virtualized computing resources such as servers, storage, and networking. IaaS can be used to create and manage virtual machines, operating systems (OS) and applications.

Platform as a Service (PaaS): PaaS is the deployment and management of applications allowing users to build, run and manage applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

Software as a Service (SaaS): SaaS is essentially a completed product that is run and managed by a service provider which is also referred to End-User Application.  Customers can access and use the application through a web browser or API.

Deployment Models


For AWS Cloud Computing, there are three different deployment models. Cloud, Hybrid and On-premises. 
 
Cloud as it says in the name, is a cloud-based application that is fully deployed in the cloud. Having all parts of the application created and run in the cloud from an existing infrastructure.
 
Hybrid deployment combines the benefits of public and private cloud environments. These deployment models are a benefit to both public and private clouds because it extends and grows an organization's infrastructure into the cloud while connecting cloud resources to internal systems.
 
On-premises are normally called "private cloud" also known as AWS Outposts which is a fully managed service that helps organizations run AWS infrastructures on-premises. Having their own data centers, AWS Services, APIs, and tools.

What services are offered by AWS?

The most used and top AWS Cloud products offered are:
  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Database
  • Networking & Content Delivery
  • Analytics
  • Machine Learning
  • Security, Identity, & Compliance
For this blog, we will go through in depth understanding of the Compute product.
You can also check the rest of the information of the products by clicking here!
 
Compute: AWS Cloud Compute provides scalable computing resources in the cloud. It includes Virtual Machines, containers, and serverless computing services allowing customers to run applications and workloads in a flexible and cost-effective manner. AWS Cloud Compute also includes a range of other services like, auto-scaling, load-balancing, improve performance, reducing costs and many more. The product is pay only for what you use which we will go in depth more later.

So what services are provided in compute? What are the benefits of using these products?

What services are provided in Compute?

There are different services provided in AWS Cloud Compute. The main ones are:
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
  • Amazon LightSail
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): EC2 provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud, allowing customers to launch and manage Virtual Machines (VM) to run their applications.
 
AWS Lambda: Lambda is a serverless computing service that allows customers to run code without having to manage servers. 
 
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): This service is a fully managed container orchestration that allows customers to run, stop, and manage containerized applications
 
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS): Kubernetes Service is a fully managed that makes it easy to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications
 
Amazon LightSail: LightSail is a cloud platform that offers pre-configured Virtual Private Server (VPS). It's easy to use and it's designed to quickly launch and manage applications.

Advantages and Uses of AWS Cloud Compute

You can use AWS Cloud Compute in a wide range of industries. They're commonly used in Web and Mobile Applications, Data and Analytics, Machine Learning and AI, DevOps and Development and Gaming!

So why do we use AWS Cloud Compute?

Flexibility

AWS Cloud Compute's flexibility provides great computing services, tools to optimize and manage their computing resources. Having elastic compute, auto scaling, containerization, and the ability for users to choose the right services. This allows users to easily adjust computing resources to their application.

Cost-Effectiveness

The cost-effectiveness can vary depending on what services are used and what deployment model are launched. AWS provides a Pay-as-you-go pricing meaning the users only pay for the resources that they consume. It still does help users save money because it is much more effective to use their service than using the on-premises infrastructure where you must purchase and maintain hardware.

Scalability and Performance

The scalability of AWS Cloud Compute provides users the ability to scale their compute resources quickly and easily. Again, depending on what services you use, you can scale your application up or down and provide fast and reliable service.

Security

AWS's Cloud security features control and helps users protect their data and applications. This service is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs all the services that were provided in the AWS Cloud

Getting started

1. Create an AWS Account

To get started with AWS Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) you first need to sign up for AWS and create an AWS account. After verifying email address, you will be given a verification code in your email.

2. Dashboard

After completing the sign up you will be redirected to this page called the "AWS Management Console". This is basically the homepage for managing various AWS services.

3. Welcome to AWS!

Now that you have an account, you can navigate around explore the page create, build whatever ideas you may come across.

For the next Blog Post, we will dive deeper and include a demonstration of AWS EC2. With given time, we will use the knowledge we know to build, create and deploy an application

See you all on Blog Post 2!

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