AWS Cloud Basics | Salesforce Trailhead Guide

In this blog, we will be taking a look at the topic of AWS Cloud. As we all know Cloud computing is the on-demand provision of computer system resources such as computing, storage, and networking. Companies like AWS own and maintain these data centres and provide virtualized data centre technologies and services to users over the Internet. 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform. Suitable for computing power, databases, storage, content delivery, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), media services, satellites, and a wide range of services required by many organizations. business goals. 

Cloud Computing has several advantages to it run our workloads such as: 

• Pay as you go – With this anyone can pay for the required services they want instead of paying for data centres and hardware unless we need all those services and save their amount by using AWS Cloud. 
• Benefit from massive economies of scale – By using cloud computing, we can achieve a lower cost because usage from hundreds and thousands of customers is aggregated in the cloud, AWS can allow us to achieve higher economies of scale, which translates into lower pay. 
• Increase Speed and Agility – IT resources are only a click away to use, which means that it will reduce the time to make those resources available to our developers from weeks to just minutes. This results in a dramatic increment in agility for the organization as the cost and time it takes to run and develop are significantly reduced. 
• Money invested in Data Centers is Reduced – As our focus is on the projects that differentiate our business, not the infrastructure. Cloud computing lets us focus on our customers, rather than on the heavy lifting of racking and stacking the physical infrastructure. 
• Connect global in minutes – It helps us easily deploy our application in multiple regions around the globe in just a few minutes and this lets us provide lower latency and a better experience for our customers at a minimal cost. 

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AWS Regions 

As we have to work with AWS, we need to understand the AWS Global Infrastructure. For this we need to consider 4 factors which are as follows: 

1. Latency – If your application is sensitive to latency, then choose a region that is close to your user base. This helps to prevent long wait times for your customers. 

1. Price – Prices may vary from one region to another depending on the local economy and the physical nature of operating data centres. It also varies on other factors such as internet connectivity, the prices of imported pieces of equipment, customs, real estate and many more. 

1. Service Availability – Some services may be available in some regions while some maybe not. The AWS documentation provides a table containing the regions and the available services within each region. 

1. Data Compliance – Enterprise companies often need to comply with the regulations that require customer data to be stored in a specific region and if it is applicable then we can choose a region that meets the compliance requirements. 

So, this is all about the AWS Cloud. I hope this information might be helpful to you.