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Friday, July 11, 2014
A Quick Look at Amazon's AWS Services
In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computingis the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.
Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, customers across all industries are taking advantage of the
Services being provided by Azure:-
Compute & Networking:
- Direct ConnectAWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection from your network to AWS.
- VPCAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you launch AWS resources in a private, isolated cloud.
- EC2Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
- WorkSpacesAmazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud.
Storage & Content Delivery:
- CloudFrontAmazon CloudFront provides a way to distribute content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
- Storage GatewayAWS Storage Gateway securely integrates on-premises IT environments with cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery.
Database:
- DynamoDBAmazon DynamoDB is a scalable NoSQL data store that manages distributed replicas of your data for high availability.
- RedshiftAmazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that lets you efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.
Analytics:
- CloudFormationAWS CloudFormation lets you create and update a collection of related AWS resources in a predictable fashion.
- Elastic BeanstalkAWS Elastic Beanstalk is an application container for deploying and managing applications.
- CloudTrailAWS CloudTrail provides increased visibility into user activity by recording API calls made on your account.
- IAMAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you securely control access to AWS services and resources.
App Services:
- AppStreamAmazon AppStream lets you stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud to multiple end-user devices.
- SESAmazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a bulk and transactional email-sending service.
- SWFAmazon Simple Workflow (SWF) coordinates all of the processing steps within an application.
A Quick look at Microsoft Azure Services
Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.
Services being provided by Azure:
Compute
Data Services
App Services
Network Services
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