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AWS tutorial provides basic and advanced concepts. Our AWS tutorial is designed for beginners and professionals.
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services which uses distributed IT infrastructure to provide different IT resources on demand.
Our AWS tutorial includes all the topics such as introduction, history of aws, global infrastructure, features of aws, IAM, Storage services, Database services, etc.
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services.
The AWS service is provided by the Amazon that uses distributed IT infrastructure to provide different IT resources available on demand. It provides different services such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS).
Amazon launched AWS, a cloud computing platform to allow the different organizations to take advantage of reliable IT infrastructure.
A small manufacturing organization uses their expertise to expand their business by leaving their IT management to the AWS.
A large enterprise spread across the globe can utilize the AWS to deliver the training to the distributed workforce.
An architecture consulting company can use AWS to get the high-compute rendering of construction prototype.
A media company can use the AWS to provide different types of content such as ebox or audio files to the worldwide files.
Based on the concept of Pay-As-You-Go, AWS provides the services to the customers.
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We can get more time for core business tasks due to the instant availability of new features and services in AWS.
It provides effortless hosting of legacy applications. AWS does not require learning new technologies and migration of applications to the AWS provides the advanced computing and efficient storage.
AWS also offers a choice that whether we want to run the applications and services together or not. We can also choose to run a part of the IT infrastructure in AWS and the remaining part in data centres.
AWS requires no upfront investment, long-term commitment, and minimum expense when compared to traditional IT infrastructure that requires a huge investment.
Through AWS, autoscaling and elastic load balancing techniques are automatically scaled up or down, when demand increases or decreases respectively. AWS techniques are ideal for handling unpredictable or very high loads. Due to this reason, organizations enjoy the benefits of reduced cost and increased user satisfaction.
AWS provides end-to-end security and privacy to customers.
AWS has a virtual infrastructure that offers optimum availability while managing full privacy and isolation of their operations.
Customers can expect high-level of physical security because of Amazon's several years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining large-scale IT operation centers.
AWS ensures the three aspects of security, i.e., Confidentiality, integrity, and availability of user's data.
2003: In 2003, Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black presented a paper on how Amazon's own internal infrastructure should look like. They suggested to sell it as a service and prepared a business case on it. They prepared a six-page document and had a look over it to proceed with it or not. They decided to proceed with the documentation.
2004: SQS stands for "Simple Queue Service" was officially launched in 2004. A team launched this service in Cape Town, South Africa.
2006: AWS (Amazon Web Services) was officially launched.
2007: In 2007, over 180,000 developers had signed up for the AWS.
2010: In 2010, amazon.com retail web services were moved to the AWS, i.e., amazon.com is now running on AWS.
2011: AWS suffered from some major problems. Some parts of volume of EBS (Elastic Block Store) was stuck and were unable to read and write requests. It took two days for the problem to get resolved.
2012: AWS hosted a first customer event known as re:Invent conference. First re:invent conference occurred in which new products were launched. In AWS, another major problem occurred that affects many popular sites such as Pinterest, Reddit, and Foursquare.
2013: In 2013, certifications were launched. AWS started a certifications program for software engineers who had expertise in cloud computing.
2014: AWS committed to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for its global footprint.
2015: AWS breaks its revenue and reaches to $6 Billion USD per annum. The revenue was growing 90% every year.
2016: By 2016, revenue doubled and reached $13Billion USD per annum.
2017: In 2017, AWS re: invent releases a host of Artificial Intelligence Services due to which revenue of AWS doubled and reached $27 Billion USD per annum.
2018: In 2018, AWS launched a Machine Learning Speciality Certs. It heavily focussed on automating Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning.
