Introduction to AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.


The AWS Cloud provides a broad set of infrastructure services, such as computing power, storage options, networking and databases, delivered as a utility: on-demand, available in seconds, with pay-as-you-go pricing. 

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 computing is 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, AWS 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.

What Is Cloud Computing? 

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computer power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
 Whether you are running applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low-cost IT resources.
 With cloud computing, you don’t need to make large upfront investments in hardware and spend a lot of time on the heavy lifting of managing that hardware. 

Instead, you can provide exactly the right type and size of computing resources you need to power your newest bright idea or operate your IT department. You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly, and only pay for what you use

 You will learn these concepts:

• Set up your AWS account and get started with the basic concepts of AWS

• Learn about AWS terminology and identity access management

• Acquaint yourself with important elements of the cloud with features such as computing, ELB, and VPC

• Back up your database and ensure high availability by having an understanding of database-related services in the AWS cloud

• Integrate AWS services with your application to meet and exceed non-functional requirements

• Create and automate infrastructure to design cost-effective, highly available applications

Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet. 


A cloud services platform such as Amazon Web Services owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for these application services, while you provision and use what you need via a web application.