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AWS Cloud History

YearEvent
2002AWS Launch

AWS Cloud Number Facts

  • 2023, AWS revenue = $90B
  • They’re good

AWS Global Infrastructure

All around world

AWS Regions

A cluster of data centers Names: us-east-1, eu-west-3, …

How to choose region

Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
Proximity to customers
Available services within a region
Pricing

AWS Availability Zones

One or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking and connectivity
They’re isolated from disasters
They’re connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking

Ex) ap-southeast-2

  • ap-southeast-2a
  • ap-southeast-2b
  • ap-southeast-2c

AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations)

Deliver contents with low latency

Tour of the AWS Console

Global services

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Route 53 (DNS service)
  • Cloudfront (Content Delivery Network)
  • WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Region-scoped

  • EC2 (IaaS)
  • Elastic Beanstalk (Platform as a Service)
  • Lambda (Function as a Service)
  • Rekognition (Software as a Service)