This document provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud computing. It discusses AWS's history and services, defines cloud computing, outlines the advantages of AWS, and describes AWS's global infrastructure including regions and availability zones. The goal of AWS is to enable businesses and developers to build scalable applications using on-demand web services.

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Introduction to
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
and Cloud Computing

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Amazon History
1994: Jeff Bezos
Incorporated the
Company
1995:
Amazon.com
Launched
Online
Bookstore
2005:
Amazon
Publishing
Launched
2006:
Amazon
Web
Services
(AWS)
Launched
2007:
Kindle
Launched
2011:
Amazon
Fresh
Launched
2012: Amazon
Game Studios
Launched
2013:
Amazon
Art
Launched
2014:
Amazon
Prime
Now
Launched
2015:
Amazon
Home
Services &
Amazon
Echo
Launched

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What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is on-demand delivery of IT resources and
applications via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

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Measured Service
Pay for services as you go.
Electrical services
analogy

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
ComputeMessaging
Mobile
App Services
Database
Networking
Development and
Management Tools
Payments
VPC
On-Demand Workforce
Analytics Content Delivery
Storage
Enable businesses and developers to
use web services to build scalable,
sophisticated applications.

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AWS Core Infrastructure and Services
AWS Technical Essentials 3.8 ILT
Security
Network
Security
Network
Security Groups NACLs Access Mgmt
VPCVPC
EC2 “Classic”
“Public
”
ELB
On-Demand
Provision
Traditional Infrastructure Amazon Web Services
Servers
AMI Amazon EC2 InstancesOn-Premises Servers
Security
Security Groups NACLs AWS IAMFirewalls ACLs Administrators
Networking
VPCELBRouter Network Pipeline Switch
Storage
and
Database
RDBMSDAS SAN NAS Amazon
EBS
Amazon
EFS
Amazon
S3
Amazon
RDS

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Six Advantages & Benefits of AWS Cloud Computing
Trade capital expense
for variable expense.
Benefit from massive
economies of scale.
Stop guessing
capacity.
Go global in minutes.
Increase speed and
agility.
Stop spending money on
running and maintaining
data centers.

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AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS GovCloud
Amazon CloudTrail
Amazon S3
Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon
AppStream
Amazon SNS
AWS IAM
Amazon Route 53
Amazon SWF
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Dynamo DB
Amazon CloudSearch
AWS Data
Pipeline
Trusted Advisor
AWS KMS
Amazon Config
Amazon RDS
for Aurora
Amazon WorkDocs
AWS
Directory
Service
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodePipeline
AWS Service Catalog
Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon EFS
Amazon API
Gateway
Amazon Machine
Learning
AWS Device Farm
AWS Web App Firewall
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon QuickSight
AWS Import/Export Snowball
RDS for MariaDB
Amazon Inspector
AWS IoT
Amazon EC2 Container
Registry
Amazon
ElastiCache
AWS
CloudFormation
Amazon
Mobile
Analytics
AWS Mobile Hub
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Elastic Transcoder
Amazon SES
Amazon EC2
Container Service
Amazon Cognito
AWS CodeDeploy
Glacier* As of 1 February 2016
Amazon WorkMail
AWS Lambda
1,950Services and Features

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On-Demand Self Services & Broad Network Access
User provisions computing resources as needed.
User interacts with cloud service provider through an online
control panel.
Clear solutions are available through a variety of network-
connected devices and over varying platforms.
Internetclient mobile client

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AWS Global Infrastructure

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AWS Global Infrastructure
Regions
Geographic locations
Consists of at least two Availability Zones(AZs)
Availability Zones
Clusters of data centers
Isolated from failures in other Availability Zones

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Achieving High Availability Using Multi-AZ
Availability
Zone - A
Availability
Zone - B
Availability
Zone - C
Region

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AWS Global Infrastructure
At least 2 AZs per region.
Examples:
 US East (N. Virginia)
• us-east-1a
• us-east-1b
• us-east-1c
• us-east-1d
• us-east-1e
 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
• ap-northeast-1a
• ap-northeast-1b
• ap-northeast-1c
Note: Conceptual drawing only. The number of Availability Zones (AZ) may vary.
US East (VA)
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C AZ - D
AZ - E
Asia Pacific
(Tokyo)
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C

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AWS Customers
Enterprise Customers Startup Customers Public Sector Customers