What is AWS cloud computing? AWS is the undisputed market leader in cloud computing today. Even though there are few worthy competitors, it doesn’t seem like anyone will push them off the podium for a while. Why is this, and how can we be sure they will remain a top player for years? Because this pattern has occurred in the history of the technology industry repeatedly. IN THEIR BOOK THE
The market share, influence, and adoption of AWS It is hard to argue that AWS is not the gorilla in the cloud market. For the first nine years of AWS’s existence, Amazon did not break down its AWS sales and profits. As of January 2021, Microsoft does not fully break down its Azure revenue and profit in its quarterly reports. They disclosed their Azure revenue growth rate without reporting the
Web storefront A famous use case for cloud services is to use it to run an online storefront. Website traffic in this scenario will be highly variable depending on the day of the week, whether it’s a holiday, the time of day, and other factors—almost every retail store in the USA experiences more than a 10x user workload during Thanksgiving week. The same goes for boxing day in the UK,
Security The perception of on-premises environments being more secure than cloud environments was a common reason companies big and small would not migrate to the cloud. More and more enterprises now realize that it is tough and expensive to replicate the security features provided by cloud providers such as AWS. Let’s look at a few of the measures that AWS takes to ensure the security of its systems. Physical security
AWS supports compliance standards. AWS has robust controls to allow users to maintain security and data protection. We’ll be discussing how AWS shares security responsibilities with their customers, but the same is true with how AWS supports compliance. AWS provides many attributes and features that enable compliance with many standards established in different countries and organizations. By providing these features, AWS simplifies compliance audits. AWS enables the implementation of security
The first pillar – Security Security should always be a top priority in both on-premises and cloud architectures. All security aspects should be considered, including data encryption and protection, access management, infrastructure security, network security, monitoring, and breach detection and inspection. You can find the security pillar checklist from Well-Architected Tool below, which has ten questions with one or more options relevant to your workload:The next pillar, reliability, is almost
Fifth pillar – operational excellence The operational excellence of a workload should be measured across these dimensions: The ideal way to optimize these metrics is to standardize and automate the management of these workloads. To achieve operational excellence, AWS recommends these principles: You can find the operational excellence pillar checklist from Well-Architected Tool below with 11 questions covering multiple aspects to make sure your architecture is optimized to run in
AWS Well-Architected Lenses As of April-2022, AWS has launched 13 well-architected lenses addressing architecting needs specific to technology workload and industry domain. The followings are the important available lenses for AWS’s well-architected framework: Above, we have covered some of the important lenses, but I will encourage you to explore other industry focus well-architected lenses such as Game, Streaming Media, Finance, and workload-specific lenses, including SAP, SaaS, HPC (High-Performance Computing), and
Building AWS Cloud Career for non-tech You may often see it as a very tech-savvy job for the Cloud. However, that is not always the case. Several Cloud roles don’t require deep technical knowledge; just a basic understanding will get your foot in the door to start a cloud career. For example, anyone from a sales and marketing background can thrive in cloud marketing, Cloud business development, or cloud sales
AWS Certified SAP – Specialty SAP specialty is a brand new certification exam that anyone can attempt starting April-2022. AWS SAP specialty certification is for SAP professionals to demonstrate their knowledge in the AWS cloud. It shows your ability to implement, migrate and support SAP workload in AWS using AWS’s well-architected framework. While AWS continues adding new certifications to validate your cloud skill, they also retire old certifications that are