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What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
In this tutorial, we will learn what is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
By Aleesha Ali Last updated : June 04, 2023
What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform. Amazon web services offer reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. These services are provided to the user based on pay-per-use and are free to join just pay for what you use. AWS provisions comprehensive cloud IaaS services ranging from virtual compute, networking, and storage to a whole complete computing stack. AWS is mostly recognized for its compute and storage-on-demand services which are:
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Simple Storage Service (S3)
1. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides users or enterprises with customizable virtual hardware that can be used as a foundation or base infrastructure for deploying computing systems on the cloud. It is possible to select from a large variety of virtual hardware configurations, including GPU and cluster instances.
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances are deployed either by using AWS console, which is a comprehensive Web portal for accessing AWS services, or by using the Web services API available for several programming languages. Or in other words, Amazon EC2 is a simple web service interface that allows users to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction and provides complete control of each computing resource.
2. Simple Storage Service (S3)
EC2 also provides the capability to save a specific running instance as an image, thus allowing users to create their templates for deploying systems. These templates are stored in Simple Storage Service (S3), and S3 is organized into buckets; these are containers of objects that are stored in binary form and can be enriched with attributes. Users can store objects of any size, from simple files to entire disk images, and have them accessible from everywhere.
Besides EC2 and S3, a wide range of services can be leveraged to build virtual computing systems. including networking support, caching systems, DNS, database (relational and not) support, and others.
