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AWS Cloud Computing Concepts
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage,

applications and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the
Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a
broad set of application services over the Internet.
The following introductory-level article covers some key AWS concepts that relate
to cloud computing:
What is Cloud Computing? Cloud vs Legacy IT

The following articles provide some additional information around basic computing
concepts:
Cloud Computing Basics � Compute

Cloud Computing Basics � Storage
Cloud Computing Basics � Network
Cloud Computing Basics � Serverless
A cloud services platform such as Amazon Web Services owns and maintains the
network-connected hardware required for these application services, while you
provision and use what you need via a web application.
6 advantages of cloud:
Trade capital expense for variable expense.

Benefit from massive economies of scale.
Stop guessing about capacity.
Increase speed and agility.
Stop spending money running and maintaining data centres.
Go global in minutes.
Trade capital expense for variable expense
Instead of having to invest heavily in data centers and servers before you know how
you�re going to use them, you can pay only when you consume computing resources,
and pay only for how much you consume.
Benefit from massive economies of scale
By using cloud computing, you can achieve a lower variable cost than you can get on
your own. Because usage from hundreds of thousands of customers is aggregated in
the cloud, providers such as AWS can achieve higher economies of scale, which
translates into lower pay as-you-go price.
Stop guessing about capacity
Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs. When you make a capacity
decision prior to deploying an application, you often end up either sitting on
expensive idle resources or dealing with limited capacity.
With cloud computing, these problems go away. You can access as much or as little
capacity as you need, and scale up and down as required with only a few minutes�
notice.
Increase speed and agility
In a cloud computing environment, new IT resources are only a click away, which
means that you reduce the time to make those resources available to your developers
from weeks to just minutes.
This results in a dramatic increase in agility for the organization, since the cost
and time it takes to experiment and develop is significantly lower.
Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
Focus on projects that differentiate your business, not the infrastructure. Cloud
computing lets you focus on your own customers, rather than on the heavy lifting of
racking, stacking, and powering servers.
Go global in minutes
Easily deploy your application in multiple regions around the world with just a few
clicks. This means you can provide lower latency and a better experience for your
customers at minimal cost.
Cloud Computing Models

3 types of cloud computing model:
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Platform as a service (PaaS).
Software as a service (SaaS).
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) contains the basic building blocks for cloud IT
and typically provide access to networking features, computers (virtual or on
dedicated hardware), and data storage space.
IaaS provides you with the highest level of flexibility and management control over
your IT resources and is most similar to existing IT resources that many IT
departments and developers are familiar with today.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS) removes the need for your organization to manage the
underlying infrastructure (usually hardware and operating systems) and allows you
to focus on the deployment and management of your applications.
This helps you be more efficient as you don�t need to worry about resource
procurement, capacity planning, software maintenance, patching, or any of the other
undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in running your application.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS) provides you with a completed product that is run and
managed by the service provider. In most cases, people referring to Software as a
Service are referring to end-user applications.
With a SaaS offering you do not have to think about how the service is maintained
or how the underlying infrastructure is managed; you only need to think about how
you will use that particular piece of software.
A common example of a SaaS application is web-based email which you can use to send
and receive email without having to manage feature additions to the email product
or maintain the servers and operating systems that the email program is running on.
Provides high availability, fault tolerance, scalability an elasticity.

The following article provides some additional information:
Cloud Computing Service Models � IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Types of Cloud Deployment
There are 3 types of cloud deployment:
Public Cloud or simple �Cloud� � e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP.

Hybrid Cloud � mixture of public and private clouds.
Private Cloud (on-premise) � managed in your own data centre, e.g. Hyper-V,
OpenStack, VMware.
Public Cloud
A cloud-based application is fully deployed in the cloud and all parts of the
application run in the cloud. Applications in the cloud have either been created in
the cloud or have been migrated from an existing infrastructure to take advantage
of the benefits of cloud computing.
Cloud-based applications can be built on low-level infrastructure pieces or can use

higher level services that provide abstraction from the management, architecting,
and scaling requirements of core infrastructure.
Hybrid
A hybrid deployment is a way to connect infrastructure and applications between

cloud-based resources and existing resources that are not located in the cloud.
The most common method of hybrid deployment is between the cloud and existing on-
premises infrastructure to extend, and grow, an organization�s infrastructure into
the cloud while connecting cloud resources to the internal system.
On-premises
The deployment of resources on-premises, using virtualization and resource

management tools, is sometimes called the �private cloud.�
On-premises deployment doesn�t provide many of the benefits of cloud computing but
is sometimes sought for its ability to provide dedicated resources.
In most cases this deployment model is the same as legacy IT infrastructure while
using application management and virtualization technologies to try and increase
resource utilization.

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AWS Cloud Computing Concepts

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage,

What is Cloud Computing? Cloud vs Legacy IT

Cloud Computing Basics � Compute

Trade capital expense for variable expense.

Benefit from massive economies of scale

Stop guessing about capacity

Increase speed and agility

Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers

Cloud Computing Models

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Provides high availability, fault tolerance, scalability an elasticity.

Cloud Computing Service Models � IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Public Cloud or simple �Cloud� � e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP.

Cloud-based applications can be built on low-level infrastructure pieces or can use

A hybrid deployment is a way to connect infrastructure and applications between

The deployment of resources on-premises, using virtualization and resource

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