Step-By-Step AWS Cloud: Introduction of AWS

This article explains about basics of Amazon Cloud Computing services and its infrastructures. Amazon is the fastest growing cloud platform on the planet. It is largest public cloud computing plant form in the planet. As per recent survey, more and more organizations are outsourcing their IT to AWS. AWS certification is most popular certifications in the world right now, and Top paid certification for 2016 according to Forbes.

You can read about Amazon Web Services at below Amazon’s documentation link.

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/

Below link may guide to know about Exam and Certifications.

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/?nc2=h_l2_tr

https://acloud.guru/

AWS New Services and Announcements and Updates

Below is the graph which explains how Amazon is growing by introducing new services and announcements and updates every year. As of 2016, there are around 1000+ updates and services available in AWS.

The Partner program in AWS

There are two kind of partners in AWS 1) Technology partners 2) Consulting partners.

Type of Consulting Partners of AWS

Consulting partners will be categorized as Standard, Advanced, and Premier partners based on number of Associate and Professional Certificates of their employees. Below is Cert matrix of consulting partners.

How Exams fit together in AWS

Difficulty level of AWS certification exams

Exam Blue Print

Below is exam blue print and weightage of questions, time, no. of questions, and method in certification exams.

History of AWS

Below is famous quote from AWS CEO Andy Jassy. this quote will definitely applicable when you build IT system. It this case, whether you are running applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. With cloud computing, you don’t need to make large upfront investments in hardware and spend a lot of time on the heavy lifting of managing that hardware. Instead, you can provision exactly the right type and size of computing resources you need to power your newest bright idea or operate your IT department. You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly, and only pay for what you use.

Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet. A Cloud services platform such as Amazon Web Services owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for these application services, while you provision and use what you need via a web application.

A brief Time line of AWS

Magic Quadrant

AWS Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.