NAME – SARAH TARIQ

ENROLLMENT NO.- 2100100908

COURSE- MSc MICROBIOLOGY
Q- Describe in brief the following about AWS Cloud-
a. Cloud Compute Services
b. Web Services
c. Storage services

a-In cloud computing, the term “compute” describes concepts

and objects related to software computation. It is a generic term
used to reference processing power, memory, networking,
storage, and other resources required for the computational
success of any program.
For example, applications that run machine learning algorithms
or 3D graphics rendering functions require many gigs of RAM
and multiple CPUs to run successfully. In this case, the CPUs,
RAM, and Graphic Processing Units required will be called
compute resources, and the applications would be compute-
intensive applications.
Cloud Computing is a generic term for anything that involves
delivering computer resources over the internet. Users can
access large amounts of computing power on demand. They
can purchase by the minute or the hour and use as much or as
little as required for their computing activities.
Compute services are also known as Infrastructure-as-a-
Service (IaaS). Compute platforms, such as AWS Compute,
supply a virtual server instance and storage and APIs that let
users migrate workloads to a virtual machine. Users have
allocated compute power and can start, stop, access, and
configure their computer resources as desired.
Benefits-
AWS Compute services offer the broadest and deepest
functionality for compute. Key benefits of using AWS Compute
include:
Right compute for your workloads
Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) offers granular
control for managing application infrastructure with the choice
of processors, storage, and networking. Amazon Elastic
Container Services (Amazon ECS) offer choice and flexibility to
run containers.
Built-in security
AWS offers significantly more security, compliance, and
governance services, and key features than the next largest
cloud provider. The AWS Nitro System has security built in at
the chip level to continuously monitor, protect, and verify the
instance hardware.
Cost optimization
With AWS compute you pay only for the instance or resource
you need, for as long as you use it, without requiring long-term
contracts or complex licensing.
Flexibility
AWS provides multiple ways to build, deploy, and get
applications to market quickly. For example, Amazon
Lightsail is an easy-to-use service that offers you everything
you need to build an application or website.
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b. Web services-
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary
of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud
computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and
governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud
computing web services provide distributed
computing processing capacity and software tools via
AWS server farms. One of these services is Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows users to have at their
disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time,
through the Internet. AWS's virtual computers emulate most of
the attributes of a real computer, including hardware central
processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs)
for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a
choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded
application software such as web servers, databases,
and customer relationship management (CRM).
AWS services are delivered to customers via a network of AWS
server farms located throughout the world. Fees are based on a
combination of usage (known as a "Pay-as-you-go" model),
hardware, operating system, software, or networking features
chosen by the subscriber
required availability, redundancy, security, and service options.
Subscribers can pay for a single virtual AWS computer, a
dedicated physical computer, or clusters of either. Amazon
provides select portions of security for subscribers (e.g. physical
security of the data centers) while other aspects of security are
the responsibility of the subscriber (e.g. account management,
vulnerability scanning, patching). AWS operates from many
global geographical regions including 6 in North America.
Amazon markets AWS to subscribers as a way of obtaining
large-scale computing capacity more quickly and cheaply than
building an actual physical server farm. All services are billed
based on usage, but each service measures usage in varying
ways. As of 2017, AWS owns 33% of all cloud (IaaS, PaaS) while
the next two competitors Microsoft Azure and Google
Cloud have 18%, and 9% respectively, according to Synergy
Group

C Storage services-
Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that stores data on
the Internet through a cloud computing provider who manages
and operates data storage as a service. It’s delivered on
demand with just-in-time capacity and costs, and eliminates
buying and managing your own data storage infrastructure.
This gives you agility, global scale and durability, with “anytime,
anywhere” data access.
Benefits-
Storing data in the cloud lets IT departments transform three
areas:
1. Total Cost of Ownership. With cloud storage, there is no
hardware to purchase, storage to provision, or capital
being used for "someday" scenarios. You can add or
remove capacity on demand, quickly change
performance and retention characteristics, and only pay
for storage that you actually use. Less frequently
accessed data can even be automatically moved to
lower cost tiers in accordance with auditable rules,
driving economies of scale.
2. Time to Deployment. When development teams are
ready to execute, infrastructure should never slow them
down. Cloud storage allows IT to quickly deliver the
exact amount of storage needed, right when it's needed.
This allows IT to focus on solving complex application
problems instead of having to manage storage systems.
3. Information Management. Centralizing storage in the
cloud creates a tremendous leverage point for new use
cases. By using cloud storage lifecycle management
policies, you can perform powerful information
management tasks including automated tiering or
locking down data in support of compliance
requirements