Amazon Web Services first entered the global IT market in 2006. After over 15 years of existence, AWS has supported the activities of a considerable number of private companies, government institutions, educational institutions, etc. The main reason behind their popularity is that they provide quality cloud computing services. So, according to CSA statistics, 41% of the cloud computing market is held by AWS, ahead of such competitors as Google Cloud, IBM, and Microsoft Azure.
What is the reason for the popularity of AWS and what exactly do they provide for companies and individual entrepreneurs? Read our new blog post.
The Definitive Guide to Amazon Web Services and Its Core Offerings
- EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is the AWS infrastructure service for scaling applications. The convenience of this service is that it provides the user with “virtual servers” in cloud storage, which is a faster, more convenient, and economical solution. Instead of spending money on additional hardware, which can periodically fail, users buy “virtual servers”, the size and number of which can be adjusted easily. These elastic servers can be scaled up or down as desired. The first version of this service appeared on August 25, 2006.
- S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web service from Amazon Web Services that offers file hosting services, i.e. storage and retrieval of data of any size. Like the previous service, S3 appeared in 2006. Simple Storage Service is one of the most popular programs for transferring and saving data due to its architecture, which protects data by almost 100%. S3 is used today by such top companies as X (Twitter), Minecraft, Reddit, Netflix, etc. Simple Storage Service currently contains a large number of storage classes, depending on volume, workload requirements, data access type, cost, etc. For example, S3 Standard is designed for data that is used most often, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is used for archived data that requires instant access, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive, in turn, is used to store archived data for a long time and retrieve information by a few hours at minimal cost.
- Lambda is a SaaS platform that provides serverless calculations. This platform runs code in response to certain processes occurring on the website and automatically performs calculations. For example, Lambda runs code when a user in an online store adds a product to the cart and places an order, or when a user likes someone else’s post on social networks. AWS Lambda can also closely cooperate with other functions from Amazon Web Services, such as Amazon API Gateway (response to HTTP requests), the already mentioned S3 or AWS Step Functions.
- RDS (Relational Database Service) is a set of services that were designed to simplify the scaling, configuration, and use of databases in cloud storage. Thanks to its intuitive interface or API, users easily adjust the size of databases and resources used. RDS also includes an automatic backup option for data security and the ability to restore it whenever needed.
Why Amazon Web Services Is the Go-To Choice
- Scalability and flexibility. As it has been mentioned above, AWS includes tools that allow you to easily scale projects and adapt their infrastructure according to business needs.
- Ease of use. One of the benefits of using AWS is that users get easy, fast, and secure access to these tools. With the help of the aforementioned tools, you can easily modify the data and its volume anywhere and anytime.
- Cost-effectiveness. With optimization and pay-as-you-go resources, using AWS is a more cost-effective solution for many companies. It’s also worth mentioning that every year, since the inception of AWS, the prices of cloud tools have been getting lower and lower.
- The variety of tools offered by Amazon Web Services. AWS contains a wide range of tools that have completely different purposes: hosting, creating artificial servers, performing serverless calculations, etc. In essence, AWS provides ready-made development platforms for anyone who wants to purchase and use these platforms.
- Reliability and security. Thanks to advanced data protection technologies, as well as the reliable architecture of the tools themselves, AWS allows the user to safely and reliably manipulate their data, without fraud threats and leaks.
AWS Essential Tools of Online Platform We Developed
Many companies use AWS to develop web solutions that involve data storage and interactive human-application interaction. The TuneLab company is not an exception, and one of the cases where we used AWS is a multi-tenant SaaS tool, in the development of which we participated.
It is a tool for business architecture and structuring of the business plan. Users create projects and track progress in the system, which provides the background to Business Strategy and Business Architecture development and implementation.
Our project manager Serhii Bezdieniezhnykh, with the assistance of the main developer Ivan Lykov, told us about his experience using AWS for this platform and the key reasons why our developers chose AWS.
“What do we use AWS for? Because it’s convenient and practical to deploy projects. Using these tools, you can raise the basic server in a few clicks, and quickly configure Nginx or Apache. AWS also provides opportunities to configure the same server, starting with the domain and ending with the database,” said Bezdieniezhnykh.
Speaking about this SaaS tool, our experts use EC2 and S3 (for reliable data storage). Particularly, on EC2, we have two servers for the SaaS platform development – staging, where they test the web solution, and production, where the finished product will be poured. Each of these servers has its IP address, which is generated after its creation on EC2 and specified in Goodady hosting.
In conclusion, we can say that the main secret of AWS’s success is that it is a powerful cloud tool for developing and managing the infrastructure of various web solutions of different scales, which makes it many companies’ choice. That’s because Amazon provides developers with reliable, easy-to-use tools at great prices that bring many benefits to businesses, such as ease of scaling projects, ensuring data protection, and more.
