Cloud basic — AWS
Cloud computing provides developers and IT departments with the ability to focus on what matters most and avoid undifferentiated work such as procurement, maintenance, and capacity planning.
Q: Why we need OS ?
A: To provide storage unit (Hardware) and computing unit (RAM + CPU) to run program.
Q: Can we setup our own cloud system for start-ups or business ?
A: Off-course we can, but that requires ample amount of money as well as there is no guarantee if our business will boom, so basically it’s one of the biggest risk to take.
Q: What does any cloud provide us?
A: It provides space virtually as in it gives us resources to develop, build, test, deploy, manage using servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence.
Q: How much does it cost on AWS cloud ?
A: We don’t need up-front amount for the services that we require and use rather it follows the rule of ‘pay as you go’.
Q: What is the business or start-up booms ?
A: We can increase the request increase in quotas, availability. We can also use auto-scaling features.
Q: Which is the most popular cloud and why?
A: AWS is the most popular and successful in world of Cloud Computing. Few reasons behind this are :
- It Has Been Around the Longest
- You Get A Year To Test It Out For Free
- It Is So Much Bigger Than Its Competitors
- It has various services and features better as compared to other cloud vendors.
Q: Strength of AWS ?
A: The key strength for the market leader continues to be the breadth and depth of its services, AWS offers more than 200 including compute, storage, database, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise applications, at last count and is more feature-rich.
Q: Is Netflix hosted on AWS?
A: Netflix uses AWS for nearly all its computing and storage needs, including databases, analytics, recommendation engines, video transcoding, and more — hundreds of functions that in total use more than 100,000 server instances on AWS.
Q: How many companies use AWS?
A: According to Amazon, the number of active AWS users exceeds 1,000,000. While small and mid-size companies make up the majority of that user base, recent polls by private consulting firms suggest that enterprise-scale users make up at least 10% of that total.
Q:Who’s Using Amazon Web Services? [2020]
A: Clearly, AWS is the cloud computing platform of choice for businesses across a range of industries. But who are the biggest, and how much money are they spending on these services?
According to Intricately, the top ten AWS users based on EC2 monthly spend are:
- Netflix: $19 million
- Twitch: $15 million
- LinkedIn: $13 million
- Facebook: $11 million
- Turner Broadcasting: $10 million
- BBC: $9 million
- Baidu: $9 million
- ESPN: $8 million
- Adobe: $8 million
- Twitter: $7 million
Q: About AWS :
- For compute, AWS’ main offering is its EC2 instances, which can be tailored with a large number of options. It also provides related services such as Elastic Beanstalk for app deployment, the EC2 Container service, ECS for Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda and Autoscaling.
- AWS storage includes its Simple Storage (S3), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), Import/Export large volume data transfer service, Glacier archive backup and Storage Gateway, which integrates with on-premise environments.
- AWS signalled its first serious move into hybrid deployments at its conference in 2018 with the launch of Outposts, a fully managed service where the vendor delivers pre-configured racks to your premises, where AWS services can be run as though it were in their data centre.
- AWS provides a price calculator https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html.
Microsoft is “a strong number two to AWS”, thanks to its combination of Azure, Office 365 and Teams. “Microsoft is often seen as the safe global bet but most clients have more than one cloud vendor”.
It is a market that has been dominated by AWS since day one, when it entered the sector in 2006. Now, Synergy Research Group’s figures for Q3 2019 have AWS as the clear market leader globally for public IaaS and PaaS market share at 33 percent, followed by Microsoft at 16 percent, Google at 8 percent and Alibaba at 5 percent.