AWS 101: Amazon’s cloud service, in detail
November 27, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Colin Barker.
I recently attended a discussion of the key components of the phenomenon known as Amazon Web Services (AWS), which I’ve turned into a basic walkthrough for anyone considering making a first move into cloud computing. AWS is Amazon’s fast growing cloud service: each day AWS adds server capacity equivalent to what Amazon had when it was a $5bn company back in 2003.
In 2006 Amazon servers handled 2.9 billion requests and in 2010 that hit 262 billion. This year the company expects its servers to handle 2 trillion, which works out at a million requests per second. That’s some pretty heavy computational lifting, and at these volumes Amazon benefits from great economy of scale…
The idea of utility computing is that, like electricity you can plug into the circuit and it operates on-demand and regardless of geography. On top of that, companies can pay for the services as they use them, which can be cheaper than signing a big, up-front contract; companies simply calculate what they need in the way of storage, cloud capability and content delivery with options including security, backup, DNS, database, storage, load-balancing, workflow, monitoring, networking and messaging…
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