AWS overview

Introduction

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.

What Is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Six Advantages of Cloud Computing

Trade capital expense for variable expense

trad. : frais d’investissement pour des charges variables.
Le cloud permet de ne payer que ce qu’on consomme.

Benefit from massive economies of scale

Stop guessing about capacity

Increase speed and agility

Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers

Focus on projects that differentiate your business, not the infrastructure.

Go global in minutes

Global Infrastructure

AWS is available in multiple locations worldwide. These locations are composed of regions and Availability Zones.

Security and Compliance

Security

AWS provides security-specific tools and features across:

  • network security
  • configuration management
  • access control
  • data encryption

AWS environments are continuously audited, with certifications from accreditation bodies across geographies and verticals (zones géographiques et secteurs d’activités).

Compliance

“AWS Cloud Compliance” enables customers to understand the robust controls in place at AWS to maintain security and data protection in the cloud. The following is a partial list of the many certifications and standards with which AWS complies:

  • SOC 1/ISAE 3402, SOC 2, SOC 3
  • FISMA, DIACAP, and FedRAMP
  • PCI DSS Level 1
  • ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27018

Amazon Web Services Cloud Platform

To access the services, you can use the AWS Management Console or the Command Line Interface.

Compute

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Benefits
  • Elastic Web-Scale Computing: You can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously
  • Completely Controlled: root access, stop, start, …
  • Flexible Cloud Hosting Services: choose among multiple instance types, operating systems, and software packages, …
  • Designed for use with other Amazon Web Services: S3, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, Amazon SQS
  • Reliable: 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 region.
  • Secure: Amazon EC2 works in conjunction with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC11) to provide security and robust networking functionality for your compute resources.
  • Inexpensive: On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances (enchères sur le prix d’utilisation des instances)

Auto Scaling



Published

26 January 2016

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