Amazon Web Services(AWS)

What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services or AWS is the cloud infrastructure and web services division of Amazon.com, the biggest retail player in the world. It is designed to bring immense benefits to organizations. Some organizations, in their excitement to benefit from Amazon, move their applications to AWS without even considering or adopting the lift and shift approach.

Despite the miss, these organizations are accorded the advantages that come with using a cost-efficient and secure infrastructure. But it is very easy for these organizations to forget that it is not that easy to enjoy the twin benefits of agility and flexibility without adopting the recommended changes.

Yes, it is true. Most IT engineers, developers, and programmers do not realize the need to evolve their organization’s architectures to experience the advantages that come with AWS. New applications, scalability, and efficiency are achievable by using cloud-related IT architecture patterns.

The evolved architectures, modified to work with AWS, are capable of supporting applications that experience irregular traffic from hundreds or thousands of mobile devices or IoT devices connected to each other as well as real-time Internet-based data analytics.

While creating modified architectures for existing applications that currently use on-premise hardware or building cloud-native applications from scratch, awareness of the differences that exist between cloud computing and traditional environments is important.

The points of difference include automation, scalability, databases, resource types, and flexible components, amongst others. It goes without saying that developing a thorough understanding of the concept before deciding in favor of migrating to AWS is critical to enjoying the short-term and long-term benefits.

Why AWS?

The flexibility and power of AWS enable businesses that are technology-based to reach the marketplaces with the limited initial investment. It also allows them to use a subscription model to scale their IT infrastructure. But, the advantages that the software offers extend to small, medium and large companies, and some of these are shared below.

1. Global Availability

AWS has 20 global data centers, with each one of these operating at multiple availability zones. It is now possible for a US-based company that wants to improve its presence in the Indian Subcontinent, they could do that with Amazon.

2. Scalability and Flexibility

Unlike traditional data centers, AWS offers unlimited flexibility and scalability. AWS’s cloud automation is one such tool that provides on-demand scaling. With this benefit, organizations are saved from planning their own infrastructure roadmap and seeing their potential failure.

3. Little or No Investment

With AWS cloud-related services, organizations are saved from excess expenditures on software and hardware. A physical data center is not required, which results in savings of operating costs.

4. Security

There is a misconception that has been doing rounds ever since AWS came into being – that data is not secure in a public cloud. On the contrary, AWS offers security tools that are usually not available in other cheaper alternatives available in the market. Organizations can directly implement these tools into individual IT environments. After implementing these tools, the data is secure.