AWS-Global Infrastructure

AWS – Global Infrastructure – Design and Approach

In an ever changing business environment, it is necessary to be competitive to remain relevant in today’s business environment. Cloud computing provides endless possibilities in scalability, flexibility, elasticity, productivity and cost savings. So organisations are looking forward to investing more and more in cloud computing to get the best advantage out of it and enable them remain agile and competitive.

Let’s discuss “Is it possible to move the data centre to cloud computing environment where you can achieve high performance with low cost??”

Today I’m going to illustrate AWS global infrastructure, its benefits, why it matters? and its use cases in depth in order to know more about cloud computing ,

It is essential to understand the basics of AWS infrastructure.

Let’s start with a quick review of how global infrastructure is designed?

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Why Cloud infrastructure matters????

AWS has the largest and most dynamic ecosystem. Any type of industry, whether it’s a startup, enterprise, public sector can use it’s cloud infrastructure where and when it is needed.

So these features result in to following

• ?Empowered workloads to operate at a level of agility and speed, which seems to be almost unimaginable in previous times
• ?Enabling business to quickly respond for ever changing needs.
• ?Secure, extensive and reliable cloud platform
• ?Offering over 200 services with excellent features like user can deploy workloads across globe in a single click.
• ?Provides service to build and deploy applications close to end user with single millisecond latency.

Components of AWS Global Infrastructure

• ?Regions
• Availability zones
• ?Local Zones
• Edge locations
• AWS Wavelength

AWS ensures customers are served across the world. So AWS keep on adding new regions to get closer to the customers. Each region is designed to be isolated from the other region.

What are regions?

• ?Physical location around the world
• ?Cluster of data centres, each region has 2 or more Availability zones
• ?Each group of logical data centres is known as availability zone

AWS has 27 Regions

Best Practices for choosing AWS regions

Continuous innovation’s at AWS provides you the maximum benefit of top performance and resilience.

We try to follow the best practices when choosing a region -

• ?Proximity:?Choose a region closest to your location to optimize network latency.
• ?Cost - Use built in AWS calculator to estimate the cost of your choices
• Services - AWS offers a wide range of services like compute storage database analytics networking and machine learning. Some services are Regional, means not available in all the regions whereas some services are Global, means available across the globe (in all regions). So you need to check before planning to use a service of its availability in your region.

Compliance

AWS supports multiple security standards and compliance certification like PCI –DSS, HIPAA, FEDRAMP, GDPR,

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Benefits of using global infrastructure

Security

• AWS infrastructure is monitored 24X7
• ?Ensures confidentiality of your data
• ?AWS’s global network interconnects data centre and regions automatically
• ?You always have control on your data like you can encrypt it move it anytime
• ?Thus we can say, AWS global infrastructure is most secure

AWS Availability Zones

Logical building blocks that makes up an AWS region

• Each region has multiple Availability zones which provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zone (AZ) in same region.
• ?Each region is completely independent.
• ?Maximum physical distance between 2 AZ’s is 100 Km
• All traffic between AZ’s is encrypted
• ?Multi AZ’s are designed for back-ups of data to provide resiliency which is a core concept of cloud computing.
• ?AWS infrastructure consist of 87 AZ’s which are isolated locations within a region

Reasons to use AWS multiple availability zones

• ?Provides High Availability - If you distribute your instance in multiple availably zones and one instance fails due to some disaster or power outage, you have your data secure in another availability zone which gives reliable performance with minimum downtime and costs.

How do you get high availability on AWS?

• ?Perform detailed monitoring.
• ?Use DNS for load balancing and floating IPs for fail over.
• ?Use multiple Availability Zones.
• ?Keep traffic within one Availability Zone and use EC2 placement groups.
• Use enhanced networking EC2 instance types.

Thus, we can say that AZ is a powerful tool for building highly available applications.

AWS local zones

AWS local zones is an extension of AWS region, used to run latency sensitive applications.

With AWS local zones you can run highly demanding application that require single digit millisecond latency to end user

Use cases of local zones

• ?Media and entertainment
• Real time gaming
• ?Electronic design automation
• ?Machine learning

No. of local zones in AWS infrastructure is 17

Edge locations

• ?The edge location are point of presence spread across the world
• ?The Edge locations are independent of Regions and AZ’s
• ?The edge locations are used as nodes of a global content delivery network
• ?The Edge locations allow AWS to serve content from locations that are close to user
• ?There are many more edge locations than regions

Aws has 150 edge locations

AWS Wave length

AWS wavelength combines high bandwidth and ultra-low latency 5G network with AWS services so that developers can build and innovate new applications.

Who should use AWS Wave length

When you need to deploy high performance application accessed by mobile end-user and devices requiring single digit milli- second latency

Example: Application Game streaming

Conclusion :

?So all the information provided in this article about AWS global infrastructure drive us to this conclusion that they offer the best solution to host and deploy your application

AWS has millions of active customers and is the fastest enterprise IT Company. AWS principle states “Leaders start with the customer, and work backwards” Ensuring that you remain close to customer and customer feedback is utmost important. So AWS designed it’s infrastructure in a way to provide high reliability at low cost. High performance and high availability is the main motive to help customers deliver better end user experience.

Pravin Mishra Amazon Web Services (AWS) Shefali Arora Madhura DasGupta Sinha Ruchita Tandon Bhavesh Atara Thank you so much all for constant support and all time guidance .

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