Cloud Computing: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Few years back (5-10 years back), organizations use to maintain their own servers. It became more hectic (maintaining servers) work for the organizations as it cost more (infrastructure maintenance and power costs etc.) and needs to be monitored continuously. By using the servers organization can only be able to access their own data and there is no data sharing for their business organizations. But “Dr. Schadt”, thought about business growths, sharing data between organizations, analyzing data usage, and he started analyzing came across with Amazon’s services for complex data analysis. He flied across the country to analyze the data and found the results. To use cloud computing technologies organizations need more powerful

Cloud computing is an emerging model where users can gain access to their applications from anywhere through their connected devices. A simplified user interface makes the infrastructure supporting the applications transparent to users. The applications reside in massively-scalable data centers where compute resources can be dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve significant economies of scale. A strong service management platform results in near-zero incremental management costs when more IT resources are added to the cloud. The proliferation of smart mobile devices, high speed wireless connectivity, and rich browser-based Web 2.0 interfaces has made the network-based cloud computing model not only practical but

Amazon exhausted in excess of $2 billion structuring the communications of their online store, which is amid the leading and on the whole dependable in the world. The diverse growth approach employed by Amazon.com have aimed at increasing their market position. Amazon merely make use of about ten percent of their meting out capability so they come to a decision to make available added service to additional business. A small number of the B2B services ensue the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the Simple Storage Service (S3), and the Mechanical Turk.

Cloud Computing is a style of computing in a scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are offered ‘as a service to customers using internet technologies’. This case study will clarify Ericsson benefited from Amazon Web Services in term of cost reduction, automated software updates, remote access, and on-demand availability. It will evaluate the scalability, dependability, manageability, and adaptability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3), and RightScale. It will observe the security concerns for cloud-based services and make suggestions to cope with these concerns. It will assess possible scalability, reliability, and cost issues associated with cloud computing, and make suggestions

The final segment in cloud computing, known as the infrastructure, is very much the backbone of the entire concept. Infrastructure vendors provide the physical storage space and processing capabilities that allow for the all the services described above. The products in this segment are slightly more varied than those in the other areas of cloud computing but include ones such as managed hosting, and development environments (such as Google gears) that allow users to build applications. Cloud storage, such as Amazon 's S3, is also considered to be part of the infrastructure segment.

Cloud computing is a fairly new technology; it is separated into three separate categories. The first is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) this service is mainly used by companies to cut the cost of buying computer hardware such as servers , they also save on maintenance cost since the virtual servers is maintained by the company that rents them [1]. The second category is Software as a Service (SaaS) this service deals with providing software which is usually rented, this allows users to have multiple users whereas normal software limits the amount of users [1]. The last category Platform as a Service (PaaS) is used as a tool to develop software [1]. All these services offered by Cloud Computing are done virtually where you access

Cloud computing has become a compelling paradigm for delivering and managing services over the internet. Although it might be difficult to define cloud computing, one simple definition of the term is virtualized third-party hosting. In simple terms, instead of renting the entire or actual physical server, one rents a certain proportion of server resources. The client’s server runs within a virtual container that may be moved from a physical server to another without service interruption. Cloud computing has changed the entire landscape of Information Technology, and it is finally actualizing the long-standing promise of utility computing. This paper serves as a comprehensive overview of the cloud computing technology; definition,

Enterprises, both big and small, are evaluating cloud computing and moving IT infrastructure to the cloud. To achieve the financial goals of the any organization and be prosperous in today’s highly aggressive market; therefore businesses must have services that are secure, reliable, scalable and available anywhere at any given time, on any device – all while it lowers cost and minimizes integration complexity.

A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications like cloud computing and Web 2.0. A host of providers including Amazon, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are helping businesses use the Internet to tap into everything from more server capacity to software that helps manage the workload. Assigning these tasks to an offsite location is known as cloud computing (Kroenke, 2013, King, 2008, Wardley, 2012, Hinchcliffe, 2014).

In 1999, Salesforce.com became the first web service to deliver applications and software over the internet. This service eventually led the way to the cloud. In 2006, Amazon unveiled its own cloud computing platform called Amazon Web Services or AWS. The Amazon Web Service now provides online services to other websites and client-side applications and powers hundreds of thousands of startups and larger companies in over 1190 countries worldwide (Fee, 2013). After Web 2.0 was developed in 2009, other companies started their own cloud services. The cloud is used by consumers daily on many different outlets such as: social media applications like Instagram and Pinterest, Google Apps, Apple iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, and much more. Now, any time you store information without using up your smartphone or your computer’s internal data, you are storing information on the cloud. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines cloud computing as a computing storage system that provides on-demand network access for multiple users and can allocate storage to users to keep up with changes in their needs (Nelson, Phillips, Steuart, 2015). The cloud has three levels: Software as a service (SaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). With Software as a service, applications are delivered by the internet. An example of this would be Google Docs, where data is stored in the cloud and files

With the rapid development of processing and storage technologies and the success of the Internet, computing resources have become cheaper, more powerful and more ubiquitously available than ever before. This technological trend has enabled the realization of a new computing model called cloud computing, in which resources (e.g., CPU and storage) are provided as general utilities that can be leased and released by users through the Internet in an on-demand fashion. In a cloud computing environment, the traditional role of service provider is divided into two: the infrastructure providers who manage cloud platforms and lease resources according to a usage-based pricing model, and service providers, who rent resources from one or many infrastructure providers to serve the end users. The emergence of cloud computing has made a tremendous impact on the Information Technology (IT) industry over the past few years, where large companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft strive to provide more powerful, reliable and cost-efficient cloud platforms, and business enterprises seek to reshape their business models to gain benefit from this new paradigm. Indeed, cloud computing provides several compelling features that make it attractive to business owners, as shown below.

These are some examples how customers have met these needs using AWS and Amazon CloudFront

The paper is not an introduction of a new process, but an evaluation of an existing technology (cloud architecture), although with recommendations for the best practices in order to achieve maximum benefits. It can be termed a new analysis of an application, which is presently in production utilizing the on-demand components that Amazon Web Services offer. Cloud architectures denote designs that involve software applications for demand services that are only accessed through the Internet. The author gives examples of where such as applied; for instance, when processing a request from a user wherein the prerequisite resources on-demand e.g., computer servers does the work and

Enterprises, both big and small, are evaluating cloud computing and moving IT infrastructure to the cloud. To achieve the financial goals of the any organization and be prosperous in today’s highly aggressive market; therefore businesses must have services that are secure, reliable, scalable and available anywhere at any given time, on any device – all while it lowers cost and minimizes integration complexity.

One of ploy on-premises software and servers. More than the first vendors in this 370,000 developers are on board. emerging market more Amazon Web Services weren’t aimed initially at big than two years ago, Amabusinesses, but enterprises are tapping in for the same zon is a good starting reasons that attract small and midsize businesses—low point for any business up-front costs, scalability up and down, and IT resource technology organization flexibility.To better support large accounts, Amazon betrying to decide where gan offering round-the-clock phone support and enterand when to plug into prise-class service-level agreements a few months ago. the cloud. For instance, if S3 availability falls below 99.9% in a Amazon’s cloud goes by Selipsky is wooing developers to AWS month, customers are entitled to at least a 10% credit. the name Amazon Web Amazon isn’t foolproof—its consumer-facing Web site and it Services (AWS), recently suffered a series of outages and slowdowns. consists, so far, of four core services: Simple Storage Amazon hasn’t morphed into a software-as-a-serService (S3); Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2); Simple vice vendor, but startups and other software develQueuing Service; and, in beta testing, SimpleDB. In opers are using AWS to offer their own