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AWS Cloud Overview - Regions & AZ

AWS Cloud history

  • 2002 - AWS was launched internally.
  • 2003 - Amazon infrastructure is one of their core strength. Idea to market.
  • 2004 - Launched publicly with SQS
  • 2006 - Re-launched publicly with SQS, S3 & EC2

  • 2007 - Launched in Europe

  • In 2019, AWS had $35.02 billion in annual revenue

  • AWS accounts for 47% of market in 2019 (microsoft is 2nd with 22%)
  • Pioneer and Leader of the AWS Cloud Market for the 9th consecutive year
  • Over 1 million active users

AWS Cloud Use Cases

  • AWS Enables you to build sophisticaed, scalable applications
  • Applicable to a diverse set of industries
    • MCDonalds
    • 21st century fox
    • Activision
    • Netflix
  • Use cases include
    • Enterprise IT
    • Backup & Storage,
    • Big Data Analytics
    • Website hosting, Mobile & Social Apps
    • Gaming

AWS Global infrastructure

  • AWS Regions
    • It has regions all around the world
    • Names can be us-east-1, eu-west-3
    • A region is a cluster of data centers
    • Most AWS Services are region scoped
    • You might want to choose an AWS region based on following criteria:
      • Compliance - with data governance and legal requirements: data never leaves a region without your explicit permission.
      • Proximity to customers: reduced latency
      • Available services within a region: new services and new features aren' t available in every region.
      • Pricing: pricing varies region to region and is transparent in the service pricing page.
  • AWS Availability Zones
    • Each region has many availability zones (usually 3, min is 2, max is 6).
      • ap-southeast-2a
      • ap-southeast-2b
      • ap-southeast-2c
    • Each availability zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking and connectivity.
    • They're separate from each other, so that they' re isolated from disasters
    • They're connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking
  • AWS Edge Locations / Points of Presence
    • Amazon has 216 Points of Presence (205 Edge Locations & || regional caches) in 84 cities across 42 countries.
    • Content is delivered to end users with lower latency.

https://infrastructure.aws/

Tour of the AWS Console

  • AWS has Global Services:
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • Route 53 (DNS Service)
    • CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
    • WAF (Web Application Firewall)
  • Most AWS Services are region-scoped:
    • Amazon EC2 (Infrastructure as a Service)
    • Elastic Beanstalk (Platform as a Service)
    • Lambda (Function as a Service)
    • Rekognition (Software as a Service) Region table: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services