Organizations have embraced Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) resource to build scalable cloud-based systems. Today, AWS platforms include tools like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Lambda and CloudWatch. With AWS monitoring resources, organizations now have the tools necessary to overcome performance challenges in real-time. Combining analytic metrics and AWS monitoring of a platform allows for better efficiency, visibility, and reliability of cloud-based marketplace infrastructure, plus operations and application deployment.
What Is Amazon Web Services?
AWS is a cloud-based platform that delivers products that enable businesses to perform a wide range of business functions including compute, network, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), streaming, robotics, content delivery, storage, web and mobile applications, data process, and scale. AWS also provides analytics; application integration; blockchain; business applications; security and compliance; and developer, gaming and management tools.
Whether you are a new startup or an existing business, AWS provides the necessary resources to build an infrastructure using Amazon solutions to reduce the costs of maintaining an on-site information technology department. The AWS cloud also reduces your risk since it is reliable and meets high standards for security and compliance. Your business entity does not have to worry about user experience since AWS provides the tools necessary to oversee performance.
Critical AWS Services
Amazon provides its users with resources for analytics and application expansion. Here are a few key services in the AWS environment that you can leverage based on necessity.
EC2
Amazon EC2 is a software configuration service that provides virtual servers to its users. You have access to a number of Amazon Machine Images (AMI) that works with any operating system. Three primary EC2 examples include memory (per gig cost), compute (higher web requests) and storage optimization (fast data retrieval tools).
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, allows users to use buckets to move data. This tool provides the cloud-based infrastructure to scale storage and applications. AWS provides four bucket systems, which each have a per-usage cost associated with need:
- Standard storage is the most reliable for high traffic accessibility; the standard storage service is highly affordable and has a storage capacity that is scalable
- Infrequent storage accessibility uses an S3 interface to manage and monitor operation resources that are less popular; this feature increases downtime expectancy of the standard package, but it is cheaper to store data
- Glacier enables enterprises to archive critical data that is not so important but must be retained for security or compliance reasons; it takes far longer to retrieve any data, but it is also a very affordable way to store information
- Reduced redundancy storage stores unimportant or reproducible data
AWS ELB
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is a scalable resource that processes web requests and delivers them to the appropriate server, which avoids the potential for hotspots. AWS supports pay-per-use application load balancing (content request processing and traffic routing) and classic load balancing (data analysis of network and applications).
Amazon CloudFront
CloudFront is a content delivery resource dependent on location that uses the AWS infrastructure to ensure user experience, fast page response times and cost reduction. With CloudFront tools, you have the ultimate way to improve the user experience.
Amazon Elastic Block Store
Amazon EBS provides storage for EC2 buckets. It also ensures security and compliance by providing encryption of access control list processing and accessibility.
Route 53
Route 53 oversees high-speed domain name system (DNS) routing through the AWS server infrastructure and routes resources like ELB, S3 buckets and servers worldwide. Development operations (DevOps) also has access to application programming interface (API) configuration of Route 53 features based on business requirements.
CloudWatch
CloudWatch monitors performance levels of applications and AWS resources by retrieving data logs. By elevating performance and user experience, CloudWatch allows your URL to gain more visibility on the Amazon Marketplace.
Lambda
Lambda is a computation resource that runs when it is required to execute on the AWS infrastructure. Developers also use the Lambda infrastructure to focus on coding.
Elastic Beanstalk
Elastic Beanstalk is a tool for web-based application management and deployment that scales automatically when your applications require it. It avoids the waste of valuable resources while also reducing latency due to inactivity of applications.
CloudTrail
When you need to monitor and audit your log activities, CloudTrail is the perfect resource as it captures transactional data that allows you to perform services like security and compliance, audits and regulatory oversight.
AWS offers the fundamental resources that help enterprises build a new ecosystem, expand in the cloud or perform monitoring and maintenance activities that enhance the user experience.
