Amazon Web Services or AWS is a platform providing cloud services that allow you to secure your applications. Other than that, it also renders a great variety of services that is flexible, reliable and user-friendly. AWS let you select the services you need for your application and pay only for the ones you use. Here are some features of AWS.
Computing Services
AWS provides cloud computing services that enable you to optimize application according to your needs. With AWS, you can easily manage your private server. You only pay when you run the codes, and do not have to keep a check on the server while they run.
Management
The management tools provided by AWS help you to manage the infrastructure of your resources. With tracking configuration, user activity, and dashboards, you can easily configure, track and manage your resources. These tools also provide optimization of resources that helps you to reduce costs and high performance.
Networking
AWS also provides networking tools. These tools provide a direct connection from your physical network to your virtual network. You can confine your cloud resources according to your need. It balances the incoming traffic and workloads enabling your application to perform well making it fault-tolerant.
Storage
AWS provides cloud storage services so that your data is secure within your application. It provides a local storage linked with the AWS cloud storage ensuring backup and recovery. The services also enable you to archive data, increase of storage capacity, manage low-cost storage and cloud bursting. The cloud services help to transfer data in and out of the cloud securely.
Business
AWS helps a lot in increasing business productivity. It helps you to stay connected by providing communication services. You can easily manage your chats, calls, online meetings, video conferences, file sharing, etc. with your application. These services also enable feedback properties for improving productivity. It has secured data storage and is compatible with any device. You can have easy access to your email accounts, calendars and contacts using any client application.
Application Services
The application services provided by AWS help you to build your application. You can easily arrange and coordinate its components. It tracks the execution of each step enabling you to check whether your application is operating according to your requirement or not. It is efficient in error handling and executing millions of step simultaneously. You can easily edit and reuse the components.
Database
With the help of database services, you can easily create and operate your database. The fully managed database services offer fast performance and reliability than any other commercial database. It allows you to transfer databases securely to the AWS cloud and quick retrieval. It supports both homogeneous and heterogeneous way of database migration. It is manageable and cost-effective.
Security
AWS protects your application from web application exploits. It enables you to customize security rules by allowing or blocking traffic. You can create and manage the encryption keys to protect your data. Other services at AWS help in improving security and compliance of your data.
Analytics
The analytics service provided by AWS analyzes data using standard SQL making it is easy for anyone to analyze data with SQL skills. Data processing services help process and distribute a large amount of data efficiently. You can effortlessly load and analyze streaming data on AWS. Data warehousing techniques make analyzing of data simpler and efficient.
Migration
Data migration at AWS involves the process of application discovery and dependency mapping. It collects information from servers, storage, and networking equipment about the data usage to plan the migration and reduce complexity. It also measures the performance of your application after migration. These services automatically replicate data changes and migrate data with less server downtime. It also ensures secure migration of your data.
