Tuesday 24 October 2017

AWS- Can They Really Solve Your Problems?

I recently attended an interesting overview of Amazon Web Services and thought I would share the 'best bits'... please enjoy...
Amazon's AWS offering has now become a huge operation compared to its launch way back in 2006... when I say huge, I mean huge. To give you an idea of scale, the comparable infrastructure and computing power that supported the entire AWS offering back in 2006 is now added each and every day to satisfy ever growing demand.
AWS is spread across eight geographic areas, with local edge locations to provide proxy caching nearest to your location. This provides both redundancy, high availability and improved performance.
AWS provides a fairly complete set of services to run almost anything you like and practically on a scale that is only really limited by how much you're willing to spend. This gives CIO's and CTO's options to play with but there is still some reticent about what should or should not 'go into the cloud'...
So what can it offer you? Well, helpfully AWS Migration Services MP 'Reference Architectures' to help you conceptualize particular architecture scenarios. You can find approaches to help you with Large Scale Processing, Batch Processing, Disaster Recovery, Online Gaming and of course their bread and butter eCommerce approach.
Is it Secure?
Level headed discussions still wrath over 'security in the cloud' and keeping in mind that cloud administrations are developing it is inappropriate to just accept that the security viewpoint will by one means or another essentially leave.

AWS is presumably as secure as it can be, in any event on paper. AWS will console you with Multi-Factor Authentication, Encryption and different security accreditation's up to military levels. You can even actualize your own security models to your own particular principles. The inquiry must be replied, however, do you put stock in AWS to oversee and secure your information and administrations? On the other side given that AWS have 'gave over the keys' to the client to fabricate their own particular administrations security turns into a common duty. For every client the view, approach and even the choice will be unique. Nearby laws may likewise impact your choice about what kind of information you are permitted to have.

What Technology is Available?

The following are some of the key services and solutions on offer by AWS Services in MP...
Compute Ec2 - This is the 'elastic compute' cloud virtual machine instances which can be 'rented' and configured by the characteristic of the workload from mobile phone to large scale cluster systems. Dedicated hardware is assigned for High Instance usage.
Cloud Watch monitoring - This service will auto-scale your environment based on performance monitoring and will add more instances as required based on demand. Transport for London use this service to scale their operations on demand.
Workspace - This is a fully managed desktop environment using the G2 graphics instance supporting desktop products like Windows on Nvidia GRID GK104 Kepler GPU's
Simple Storage - S3 is a highly scalable storage platform used by the likes of DropBox, Shazam and of course Amazon's retail business. Objects held within S3 are copied around the availability zones to reduce delays and improve caching.
Elastic Block Store - This provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Replicated across availability zones.
Glacier - Backup for long term archival. Pricing is based on number of requests (metered) Can take 3-5 hours to retrieve objects.
AWS Public Data Sets - These are free to use data sets hosted on a Hadoop platform they include data sets like: NASA NEX, Human Genome, Census Data and PubChem
Kinesis - Kinesis is a managed service that scales elastically for real-time processing of streaming big data and is used in conjunction with EC2 instances.

The Conclusion

For the average business though, you are more likely to choose a hybrid approach, where you choose to run your tightly coupled development in house and simply use AWS for everything else. The point is you have a choice, and AWS Services in MP will almost certainly solve at least some of your challenges.

1 comment:

  1. Good... This case study of AWS migration is really helpful for all of us. Thanks for sharing

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