AWS Tutorial

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most widely accepted and used cloud services available in the world. AWS offers 175 featured services. Its used by all kinds of companies from a startup, enterprise and government agencies. By using AWS people are reducing the hardware cost and cost to manage the hardware. AWS service offers better scalability, reliability, security and easy to understand and use interface. This tutorial will cover all the services that are useful for any company available in AWS and with proper understanding. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to understand how AWS can play an integral role in your company.

Why do we need to learn AWS?

Every company today is a fast-growing startup, enterprise-level or government agencies all are either using cloud technology or is in the process of shifting to cloud. As a result employee with cloud technology understanding and skills are in high demand. According to LinkedIn survey data, cloud computing is the number one skill companies are looking for always.

Applications of AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a scalable, secure and reliable cloud services platform, it offers computing power, database storage, CDN(content delivery network), Mail delivery, Load balancer and many more that are useful for business to grow and scale at pace.

Below are some of the tasks you can do with AWS:

Host dynamic websites and running web and application server in cloud over EC2.
Securely store your files in an S3 bucket which is like an unlimited storage and you can connect it with Cloudfront to serve your content on a CDN network.
Use cloud database like Amazon Redshift, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle.
Send bulk mails to your customer.
Useful for the training of your models with your dataset.
You can use code to commit a managed version control system.

Example

Let's say you have a website where you allow users to upload images in the backend, you can convert them into PDF after doing OCR over the image. You can use the EC2 server for hosting your website and to make it scalable you can use AWS Autoscaling where you can have a different server dedicated to processing the image OCR and your static pages can be served on a different instance of AWS. The computing power will increase on-demand with autoscaling. You can have a lambda function to quickly move your data when it reaches a certain limit to a different storage server.

Prerequisites

There are certain things you should know before getting your hands on AWS.

Basic knowledge about the operating systems.
Need to have understanding on virtualization. Just basic concept what is virtualization.
Little bit knowledge about concepts of networking like IP address, domain and other basic terminology.
Understanding the cloud public and private.
Little bit command over coding.

Target Audience

AWS is important for anybody who wants to proceed with their career in software engineering or development. Even managers can have a basic understanding of AWS cloud technology. AWS is very vast and has numerous services for everything marketing, mailing to machine learning. A basic idea about cloud services can be useful for anyone an Entrepreneur, Developer or even Businessman.