admin With Cloud Computing, we are experiencing the most flamboyant technological evolution in the field of technology and it brings to light the fastest adoption than any other technology in the domain. The benefits of cloud computing are well-versed; businesses are able to simplify provision and de-provision resources on-demand, more easily serve users in new geographies and operate more cost-effectively than on-premises. Because of this, migrating data and applications has become a question of “when” and not “if”. And for all entrepreneurs and developers in the technology business, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not something new. It has been a godsend in creating value for all, undoubtedly Amazon Web Services ruling this world of cloud technology.
Incredible Evolution of Cloud Computing
[mks_col][mks_one_half]Nowadays, we feel like Cloud industry emerged out of thin air, seemingly overnight. But, Amazon Web Services (AWS) which is a pioneering, leveraging, dynamic, and growing business unit within Amazon.com has emerged from separate internal initiatives at Amazon over 17 years ago to help developers as well as to improve the efficiency of the company’s own infrastructure.
[/mks_one_half][mks_one_half]AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS[/mks_one_half][/mks_col]
The roots of AWS as a developer tool can be drawn since 2002 when an initial beta was released called ‘Amazon.com’. Web Service offering SOAP and XML interfaces for the Amazon product catalogue. This turnkey initiative for developers was the first step by Amazon for adopting the potential of developer-friendly tools, particularly in infrastructure space, as an actual product.
From there, a grander idea emerged: An amalgamation of infrastructure services and developer tools as a pseudo-operating system for the internet. By isolating different parts of the infrastructure like storage, compute power, and database as components to the operating system and having developer-friendly tools to manage them, it was possible to recognize infrastructure as automated and standardized with web services.
[mks_col][mks_one_half]AWS has the most extensive global cloud infrastructure. No other cloud provider offers as many Regions with multiple Availability Zones connected by low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant networking[/mks_one_half][mks_one_half]
Publicly launched on March 19, 2006, AWS offered Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), with Simple Queue Service (SQS) following soon after. By 2009, S3 and EC2 were launched in Europe, the Elastic Block Store (EBS) was made public, and a powerful content delivery network (CDN), Amazon CloudFront, all became formal parts of AWS offering. These services are developer-friendly and also attract businesses ready to adapt cloud technology and set the table for formalized partnerships with data-driven enterprises such as Dropbox, Netflix, and Reddit, all before 2010.
[/mks_one_half][/mks_col]Pioneer and Virtuoso of AWS
We’re in the middle of the biggest technology revolution in history. AWS, the pioneer in cloud computing, has radically disrupted the global business landscape and the customer experience. But, AWS wasn’t any single minded idea, the idea grew organically out of the company’s initiative to enhance its ability to launch new projects and support customers. A Harvard MBA, Andrew R. Jassy has started focusing on delivering better experiences internally and for merchant partners, and the concept of AWS was sort of stumbled upon while seeking to solve a recurring need, namely faster technology deployment. This trend has manifested as an entirely new and game-changing approach to technology development, which involved decoupling services, Jassy had pulled up the rug on Amazon’s development process and discovered internally scalable, reliable infrastructure services. Tech veteran Andrew R. Jassy spearheaded and now leads the Amazon Web Services business.Andrew R. Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), has joined Amazon in 1997 and leading AWS since its inception. He is managing an inventive and nimble team that has delivered more than 90 cloud infrastructure and application services that are used by millions of startup, enterprise, and government customers around the world. Prior to founding AWS, he held various leadership roles across the company.
Leading the World with Groundbreaking Cloud Computing Services
As a world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, AWS offers over 165 fully featured services from data centers around the world. Including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies, zillions of businesses are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.AWS offers a comprehensive set of global cloud-based products including compute, databases, storage, networking, analytics, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise applications. These services help organizations for swift, cost effective, sclable agility. AWS is trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest start-ups to power a wide variety of workloads including web and mobile applications, game development, data processing, and warehousing, storage, archive, and many others.
Cloud computing has been so successful that it’s increased the pace of technology innovation, the rate of technology adoption, and the volume of data in the world by many folds. AWS now goes toe to toe with old-guard technology every day on capabilities, services, costs, and benefits. It’s been radically disruptive to everything about business and the customer experience.Foremost Functionality
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes & analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything which can be imagined.
[mks_col][mks_one_half]AWS also has the deepest functionality within those services. For example, AWS offers the widest variety of databases that are purpose-built for different types of applications so organizations can choose the right tool for the job to get the best cost and performance.
[/mks_one_half][mks_one_half]The Most Extensive, Reliable, and Secure Global Cloud Infrastructure[/mks_one_half][/mks_col]
Predominant Security
AWS is architected to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. Its core infrastructure built to satisfy the security requirements for the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. This is backed by a deep set of cloud security tools, with 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features. AWS supports 90 security standards and compliance certifications, and all 117 AWS services that store customer data offer the ability to encrypt that data.
Swift Pace of Innovation
With AWS, organizations leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. The company continually accelerating its pace of innovation to invent entirely new technologies to transform business. Likewise, in 2014, AWS pioneered the serverless computing space with the launch of AWS Lambda, which lets developers run their code without provisioning or managing servers. And AWS built Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service that empowers everyday developers and scientists to use machine learning–without any previous experience.
Proven Operational Expertise
AWS has unmatched experience, maturity, reliability, security, and performance that any organization can depend upon for most important applications. For over 13 years, AWS has been delivering cloud services to millions of customers around the world running a wide variety of use cases. AWS has the most operational experience, at greater scale, of any cloud provider.
Leading the Largest Community of Customers & Partners
With millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners globally, AWS has the largest and most dynamic community. Virtually every industry and of every size, including public sector organizations, startups, and enterprises are running every imaginable use case on AWS. The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes thousands of systems integrators who specialize in AWS services and tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) who adapt their technology to work on AWS.
The Future of the Cloud
In this fast techno-pace world, the vast majority of workloads will go to the cloud. We’re just at the beginning — there’s so much more to happen, especially in the mobile space, implies Andrew R. Jassy, he adds, “Most people believe mobile devices will one day become the primary computing shell. The smaller the device, the more the cloud is needed.”According to Andrew R. Jassy, the pace of innovation at AWS continues to run very high. And, alluding to the natural tendency for Amazon culture to get excited about new capabilities he explained a list of upcoming AWS services, “Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic Map Reduce, S3 which stores trillions of objects, Dynamo DB — a very fast, high throughput, low latency, non-relational database, RDS Service, Mobile Push Notification — demand for these services just keeps accelerating. We’re waiting for it to attenuate and it just hasn’t yet.”
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