AWS - Introduction

  •  AWS is a cloud provider which provides us with servers and services that we can use on demand and scale easily.
  • AWS powers. Some big websites like
    • Amazon
    • Netflix
    • Dropbox
    • Airbnb
    • NASA
  • AWS has more than 30 services as of now.
  • It was internally launched in 2002. In 2003, Amazon infrastructure was one of its core strength.
  • SQS launched in 2004, in 2006, they launched S3, EC2
  • EWS enables us to build sophisticated scalable applications.
  • Applicable to a diverse set of industries
    • Enterprise IT, Backup and Storage, Big Data analyst
    • Website, hosting, mobile and social apps.
    • Gaming
  • AWS global infrastructure
    • AWS regions
    • AWS availability zones
    • AWS data centres
    • AWS edge locations
  • World is divided into regions
    • Cluster of data centres
    • Most services, are regions scoped.
  • Region are generally governed by location compliance, proximity, available services, pricing.
  • Each region has at most six availability zones, minimum three.
  • Each availability zone(AZ) is one or more discrete data centre with redundant power, networking and connectivity.
  • They help in prevention during disasters.
  • Development Configuration
    • Configure a M permissions to support your development environment.
    • Design diagram to build and deploy a cloud native application.
    • Install AWS toolkit in your IDE.
    • SDK help API's to interact with service.
    • Two types of API
      • Low level API - works on client level
      • High level API - works on resource level
    • Install AWS CLI.
  • Subjects to Study in AWS cloud developer
    • AWS partitioner essentials.
    • AWS Technical essentials.
  • Amazon Polly is used to convert text to speech.

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