Amazon AWS

What is Amazon Web Services?

Amazon Web Services, also known as AWS, is a set of cloud computing services and tools from Amazon. This service was officially launched in 2006 and by June 2007 AWS already had a user base of approximately 180,000 people. Among the companies that use it are some such as Reddit, Foursquare, Pinterest, Netflix, NASA or the CIA, and some Spanish such as Mapfre, FC Barcelona or Interflora. This is mainly due to the maturity of the service compared to other similar ones and the possibilities offered by the wide range of tools available. In the Cloud Computing Guide you can find a comparison of all Amazon Web Services tools with those of other similar platforms.

Amazon Web Services offers tools in the following categories:

Cloud computing

Everything necessary for creating instances and maintaining or scaling them. Amazon EC2 is the undisputed king of Amazon's cloud computing services.

Databases

Different types of databases can remain in the cloud through the Amazon RDS service, which includes different types to choose from such as MySQL, PosgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server and Amazon Aurora, or Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL.

Creation of virtual networks

it allows the creation of virtual private networks through the cloud, mainly thanks to the Amazon VPC service.

Business Applications

Amazon WorkMail is the business mail service offered by Amazon, which can be joined by other services such as Amazon WorkDocs and Amazon WorkSpaces.

Storage and content managers

Different types of storage, both for files with regular access, infrequent or even as an archive. Amazon S3 is the main service, although others such as Amazon Glacier or Amazon EBS complement the offer. In the following video (12:13 min.), You can see a video tutorial with a general definition of AWS and an explanation of how Amazon S3 works:

Business Intelligence or Business Intelligence (BI)

Systems for large-scale business data analysis and other services for data flow management.

Mobile application management

Tools such as Amazon Mobile Hub allow the management, creation, testing and maintenance of mobile applications through the cloud.

Internet of Things (Internet of Things, IoT)

To establish connections and analysis of all devices connected to the Internet and the data collected by them.

Developer tolos

To store code, deploy it automatically, or even publish software using a continuous delivery system.

Security and access control

Authentications can be established in several steps to protect access to your internal systems, whether they are in the cloud or installed locally on your premises.