AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud platform offered by Amazon.com Inc is made up of many different cloud computing products and services. The highly profitable division of Amazon provides servers, storage, networking, remote computing, email, mobile development, and security. AWS can be broken into three main products: EC2, Amazon’s virtual machine service, Glacier, a low-cost cloud storage service, and S3, Amazon’s storage system.

AWS is so large and present in the computing world that it's far outpaced its competitors. As of the first quarter of 2021, one independent analyst reports AWS has over a third of the market at 32.4%, with Azure following behind at 20%, and Google Cloud at 9%.

AWS has 81 availability zones in which its servers are located. These serviced regions are divided in order to allow users to set geographical limits on their services (if they so choose), but also to provide security by diversifying the physical locations in which data is held. Overall, AWS spans 245 countries and territories.

Applications of AWS

The most common applications of AWS are storage and backup, websites, gaming, mobile, web, and social media applications. Some of the most crucial applications in detail are as follows:

1. Storage and Backup

One of the reasons why many businesses use AWS is because it offers multiple types of storage to choose from and is easily accessible as well. It can be used for storage and file indexing as well as to run critical business applications.

2. Websites

Businesses can host their websites on the AWS cloud, similar to other web applications.

3. Gaming

There is a lot of computing power needed to run gaming applications. AWS makes it easier to provide the best online gaming experience to gamers across the world.

4. Mobile, Web and Social Applications

A feature that separates AWS from other cloud services is its capability to launch and scale mobile, e-commerce, and SaaS applications. API-driven code on AWS can enable companies to build uncompromisingly scalable applications without requiring any OS and other systems.

5. Big Data Management and Analytics (Application)

Amazon Elastic Map Reduced to process large amounts of data via the Hadoop framework.

• Amazon Kinesis to analyze and process the streaming data.
• AWS Glue to handle, extract, transform and load jobs.
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service to enable a team to perform log analysis, and tool monitoring with the help of the open source tool, Elastic-search.
• Amazon Athena to query data.
• Amazon QuickSight to visualize data.

6. Artificial Intelligence

• Amazon Lex to offer voice and text chatbot technology.
• Amazon Polly to translate text-to-speech translation such as Alexa Voice Services and echo devices.
• Amazon Recognition to analyze the image and face.

7. Messages and Notifications

• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) for effective business or core communication.
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to receive or send emails for IT professionals and marketers.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to enable businesses to subscribe or publish messages to end users.

8. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

• Amazon Sumerian service enables users to make the use of AR and VR development tools to offer 3D web applications, E-commerce & sales applications, Marketing, Online education, Manufacturing, Training simulations, and Gaming.

9. Game Development

• AWS game development tools are used by large game development companies that offer developer back-end services, analytics, and various developer tools.
• AWS allows developers to host game data as well as store the data to analyze the gamer's performance and develop the game accordingly.

10. Internet of Things

• AWS IoT service offers a back-end platform to manage IoT devices as well as data ingestion to database services and AWS storage.
• AWS IoT Button offers limited IoT functionality to hardware.
• AWS Greengrass offers AWS computing for IoT device installation.