What is AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of web services (collection of remote computing services), which make up a cloud computing platform offered by Amazon.

Benefits of AWS:

• It is extremely Cost Effective: With AWS you pay only for the compute power, storage, and other resources that are being used, without any long-term contracts and up-front commitments
• It is extremely Cost Effective: With AWS you pay only for the compute power, storage, and other resources that are being used, without any long-term contracts and up-front commitments
• Reliability: AWS, offers the advantage of a scalable, reliable, and secure global computing infrastructure, the virtual backbone of Amazon
• Easy to Use: AWS allows application providers, ISVs, and vendors to quickly and securely host applications
• Secure: AWS leverages end-to-end approach to secure and harden infrastructure, including physical, operational, and software measures

A few of the popular services are Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service which is an online file storage web service which provides storage through web services interfaces such as REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent. And Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) – It allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications.

How it has helped lowering hosting costs for start-ups?

AWS has helped start-ups to scale quickly, go to market faster, control costs and stay lean.

With AWS enterprises can replace upfront capital cost with low variable cost and spend only on the resources that are used. For Start-ups AWS has proven to be more cost-effective than on-premises environments in both the short, and long, term. Amazon EC2 provides many flexible pricing options to help start-ups take advantage and reduce overall IT costs, including On-Demand, Spot, and Reserved Instances. Use more and save more option of AWS offers volume discounts and custom pricing to customers for high volume projects with unique requirements. AWS provides a wide range of certifications and accreditations, security, privacy, encryption, and inherent security built-in the AWS services to customers at no additional costs.

AWS Integration Process

AWS related Services offered by Arora Infotech:

Our Managed AWS Solutions render a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to support and manage our customer base. Combined with the industry standards and best practices and range of tools, we have delivered AWS managed solutions across many domains. Our services cover the following key areas:

•  Set Up
•  Migration
•  Monitoring
•  Managing

Set Up:

Our experienced cloud consultants perform a full assessment of the enterprises current environment, its existing infrastructure and hosting set up, performance and security requirements and application deployment. We identify gaps and recommend improvements; we then set up a PoC to prototype and validate the project requirements. All feedback and findings are noted and implemented in the final project.

Migration:

We offer a systematic and a phase-driven step-by-step strategy for migrating applications to the cloud. We identify the framework/library/SDK that works best for integrating with AWS services. We cater to both application migration as well as data migration. We understand the different options for moving the data and accordingly we utilize the Amazon S3 for migration. For moving the applications we leverage the Forklift strategy – where we migrate an existing application into the cloud with few code changes, or the Hybrid strategy option where we take only some parts of an application and move them to the cloud, the rest of them are in its place.

Monitoring:

We monitor the performance of the cloud applications in order to proactively identify any performance issues and help you diagnose the root causes so you take appropriate actions. We monitor AWS usage bill, Service API usage reports, Amazon S3 or Amazon CloudFront access logs periodically. We also perform:

•  Custom Application Monitoring
•  AWS Monitoring & Support
•  Log & Event Monitoring

Managing:

We leverage Auto Scaling options that AWS provides which enables to set conditions for scaling up or down the Amazon EC2 usage. We also perform the following:

•  Managed O/S Updates & Security Patching
•  Managed Data Backups & Restores
•  Managed Virus Scanning

Arora Infotech is proud to offer a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security, and enterprise applications to the following clients:

• Abbvie
• Tableau Software