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• AWS cloud was launched in 2002 internally at amazon.com
• The first offering publicly launched by AWS was SQS in 2004
• In 2006, AWS expanded their offering with SQS, S3, and EC2
• AWS has many applications that used to run or are still running on it, such as Dropbox, Netflix, Airbnb, and NASA
• AWS in Gartner magic quadrants

  • AWS is on the top right corner as a leader
  • Able to execute really well
  • Great completeness of vision
• AWS is a pioneer and leader of the AWS Cloud Markets for the ninth consecutive year
• AWS has over 1 million active users
• AWS enables you to build


  Sophisticated and scalable applications
• Every company has a use case for the cloud
• Companies using AWS


  • Netflix
  • McDonald's
  • 21st Century Fox
  • Activision
• Use cases for AWS

  • Transferring enterprise IT
  • Using the cloud as backup and storage
  • Doing big data analytics
  • Hosting a website
  • Creating a backend for mobile and social applications
  • Running gaming servers
• AWS is a global service
• AWS regions


  • Clusters of data centers
  • Named regions like us-east-1, eu-west-3
• Choosing an AWS region

  Depends on compliance<|>Latency<|>Availability of services<|>Pricing
• Compliance


  Governments may require data to be local
• Latency


  Deploying close to users reduces lag
• Availability zones


  Minimum of three, maximum of six in a region<|>Isolated from disasters<|>Connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking
• AWS has more than 400 points of presence in 90 cities across 40 countries
• Points of presence


  Helpful for delivering content to end users with the lowest latency possible
• AWS global services


  • IAM
  • Route 53
  • CloudFront
  • WAF
• AWS region-scoped services


  • Amazon EC2
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Lambda
  • Rekognition
• There is a region table to check service availability in your region