{"id":398,"date":"2017-06-16T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2017-07-12T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:11:44","slug":"intro-to-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Section 1: Intro to AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>PART 1<\/h3>\n<p>What is Cloud Computing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On-demand<\/li>\n<li>IT resources<\/li>\n<li>Accessible online<\/li>\n<li>Pay as you go<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What issues does Cloud computing address<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low Cost<\/li>\n<li>Elastic<\/li>\n<li>Flexible<\/li>\n<li>Secure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AWS Histyory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launched in 2006<\/li>\n<li>1 million active clients in 190 clountries<\/li>\n<li>2000 gov. agencies<\/li>\n<li>500 academic institutions<\/li>\n<li>17500+ non profit<\/li>\n<li>722 significant features since 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the top 15 Cloud vendors (2015):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AWS<\/li>\n<li>MS<\/li>\n<li>Google<\/li>\n<li>CenturyLink<\/li>\n<li>VMWare<\/li>\n<li>IBM (Softlayer)<\/li>\n<li>Rackspace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AWS vs. On Premesis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large purchases with rpedetermined resources<\/li>\n<li>Building can be slow and expensive.<\/li>\n<li>Large capital purchases<\/li>\n<li>Requirement for physical space, cooling, power<\/li>\n<li>Requirement for cabling, networking, racks, servers, storage<\/li>\n<li>Requirement for Labor, certifications<\/li>\n<li>Upfront for everything<\/li>\n<li>Limited (Fixed) capacity or paying too much<\/li>\n<li>Upgrades required 1 &#8211; 5 years<\/li>\n<li>Long procurement times, labor intensive<\/li>\n<li>Limited geographical regions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AWS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continually lowering prices<\/li>\n<li>Optimize with pricing options<\/li>\n<li>50% cost reduction<\/li>\n<li>Focus on Innovation (Apps, not Ops)<\/li>\n<li>Flexibility on capacity<\/li>\n<li>Fast and on-demand provisioning (Speed and agility)<\/li>\n<li>Geographically flexible (Global reach on demand)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>PART 2 AWS Infrastructure<\/h3>\n<p>Anything you need for on-premisis available with AWS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security (Firewalls, NACLs, Access Mgment)<\/li>\n<li>Networking<\/li>\n<li>Servers<\/li>\n<li>Storage and Databases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Global Infastucture defined by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global regions<\/li>\n<li>Availability zones<\/li>\n<li>Edge Locations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This flexibility allows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Llower latency and higher throughput.<\/li>\n<li>Data resides only where clients need it<\/li>\n<li>As clients grow, they can expand their footprints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A region is a geographical area with 2 or more availability zones.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing a region<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimize latency<\/li>\n<li>Minimize cost<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory requirements<\/li>\n<li>Resources in 1 region are not automatically replicated to another region.<\/li>\n<li>Should use encryption when moving data from one region to another (Public internet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Availability Zones are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A collection of data centers within each region<\/li>\n<li>Isolated from other Availability Zones<\/li>\n<li>Connected by a low-latency link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why is this important?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protects them from failures on other az<\/li>\n<li>Low latency allows other AZs to handle requests in case of failure<\/li>\n<li>Best practice is provision resources across multiple AZs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Edge Locations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Host a Content Delivery Network (CDN) (Amazon Cloudfront)<\/li>\n<li>Can be used to deliver data that is\n<ul>\n<li>Static<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic<\/li>\n<li>Streaming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Requests are automatically routed to nearest edge location delivering content faster to customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PART 1 What is Cloud Computing On-demand IT resources Accessible online Pay as you go What issues does Cloud computing address Low Cost Elastic Flexible Secure AWS Histyory Launched in 2006 1 million active clients in 190 clountries 2000 gov. agencies 500 academic institutions 17500+ non profit 722 significant features since 2015 Of the top ..<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=398\" title=\"read more...\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-web-services-aws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}