Cloud Engineering
What Is Cloud Engineering with AWS?
Amazon Web Services is a cloud engineering platform for on-demand delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet.
History: AWS was launched internally at Amazon in 2002, recognizing the potential to externalize their IT infrastructure. Their first public offering, SQS, came in 2004, followed by the launch of SQS, S3, and EC2 in 2006.
Growth and Adoption: AWS expanded globally beyond America and has seen widespread adoption by major companies like Dropbox, Netflix, Airbnb, and NASA.
Market Leadership: As of Q1 2024, AWS holds a leading market share of 31% with $90 billion in revenue (as of 2023) and has been a market pioneer for 13 consecutive years with over 1 million active users.
Versatile Applications: AWS enables the building of sophisticated and scalable applications across diverse industries, with use cases ranging from enterprise IT migration and backup to big data analytics, website hosting, mobile/social application backends, and gaming servers.
Global Infrastructure: AWS boasts a global presence with THREE key components:
- - Regions: Geographically isolated clusters of data centers around the world (e.g., US-east-1, EU-West-3). Most AWS services are region-specific. Choosing a region depends on factors like compliance, latency, service availability, and pricing.
- - Availability Zones (AZs): Within each region, there are multiple (usually three) isolated data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, designed to be resilient to disasters.
- - Points of Presence (Edge Locations): A global network of over 400 locations in 90 cities across 40 countries used to deliver content to end-users with low latency.