AWS Data Security And Reliability
✔ Amazon Web Services provides various products like global compute, storage, database, analytics and deployment services that help organizations move faster with lower IT investment costs, and Scalability functionality. ✔ To boost wide variety of workloads many start-ups and large enterprises primarily trust these services. ✔ The fundamental USP of the Cloud computing set-up for any business will be mainly focused on reliability of the storage system.
✔ The reliability goal for cloud service provider is “five nines” (99.999%) ✔ According to cloud outage figures for 2014, a handful of vendors achieved that goal while Amazon Web Services was the closest among the largest cloud providers. ✔ Amazon cloud service provide best in class storage and content delivery services.
AWS Storage and Content Delivery Applications: ➔Object storage: Amazon S3 (Scalable Storage in the Cloud). ➔Block Storage : Amazon EBS ( EC2 Block Storage Volumes). ➔ File System Storage: Amazon Elastic File System (Fully Managed File System for EC2).
✔ Amazon Cloud provides cost effective storage capability for a wide range of use cases including backup and archiving and disaster recovery.
How Amazon Cloud Service achieve high reliability so that you never lose your data?
Multi-Tier Storage
✔ AWS Cloud provides simple storage service that offers software developers a highly-scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs.
Multi-Tiered Storage: Drobo + SSD + AWS Storage Gateway
1. Drobo: For any critical data on the cloud, Drobo device provides an option for redundant backup and disaster recovery. This application will be highly benefitial for users who doesn’t have a secondary site with IT equipment. 2. SSD (Solid State Drive): AWS Cloud provides SSD to speed up access to transactional data, with automatic, data-aware tiering to manage data locations for optimal performance.
3. AWS Storage Gateway: It allows users to store the data securely in AWS cloud for scalable and cost-effective way. This services supports industry standard protocols which work with your existing applications.
Tier Based Flexibility
✔ With Free Tier Service you can use more than 700 free and paid software products that runs on AWS free tier. ✔ The whole storage system is integrated with Amazon EC2 cloud for simplicity and ease of use.
✔ AWS provide free tier service to the users for 12 months from the date of sign-up. This Free tier option is only available for new customers. ✔ The offers do not automatically expire at the end of your 12 month. ✔ If your free usage term expires or you exceeds the app usage tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rate.
Pricing
✔ For AWS products and services, the pricing policy is flexible. ✔ You just have to pay for the resources that you use, there is no minimum fee or initial deposit. ✔ AWS also have in built feature a Simple monthly calculator, which benefits the users to check their monthly usage and billing factors.
✔ The costs depend on the location of your Amazon S3 Bucket. If the Amazon S3 storage location is nearby AWS charges less. ✔ Under the free tier offers every user gets 5 GB of free space to use.
Security
AWS provides broad and deep infrastructure for Security and identity services to users like, ➔ Identity Management ➔ Access Control ➔ Key Storage & Management ➔ Performance & Security Optimization
✔ AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. ✔ With IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and can provide access or deny to AWS resource available. ✔ You can also define the users role in AWS IAM and can control the entity with predefined rules.
✔ AWS CloudHSM (Hardware Security Module) enables your business to meet contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated HSM. ✔ With AWS CloudHSM entity can control the encryption keys and cryptographic operations performed by the HSM. ✔ Users can securely create, store, and handle the cryptographic keys used for data encryption.
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