AWS Managed Services

 

Managed Amazon Web Services is one such innovation that has taken a step forward to simplify the functioning of cloud computing, especially for large enterprises.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing refers to the delivery of IT services. It includes providing several services over the internet, including data storage, databases, networking, servers, and software, saving files to a database. Such files are easily retrievable on demand.

It has proven to save large enterprises enormous sums of money in buying hardware and software set up to store data traditionally. It makes data backup and recovery less expensive and easy to access without compromising security. Such services of cloud computing are also known as deployment models.

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What are AWS ( Amazon Web Services)?

Many cloud computing services have been launched to date, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, popularly known as the IaaS, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). However, the most globally used model happened to be the AWS, amazon managed services, launched in 2006 to cater to the online retail operations of Amazon, providing cloud deployment services.

Amazon managed services has today established itself as the most recognized technology globally.

The existence of AWS can be broken down into the following products:-

• EC2
• Amazon’s virtual machine service and S3
• Amazon’s storage system

Furthermore, the primary services of AWS include:-

• Amazon Cloud Front
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Amazon SimpleDB
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Services to users also have a long list of items, including storage, email, remote computing, networking, servers, mobile development, etc.

AWS Services in Detail:-

• Storage

Storage services are one of the most appreciated services that AWS provides. Amazon’s simple storage service is also known as S3. It comes with the ability to easily adapt to the increase in the workload and extend the storage at the convenience of users, building the data backup up to 5 GB. S3 has different buckets in which the users can reserve and manage data and files. Also, for additional storage, amazon web services offer access to a long-term cold storehouse:-

• Amazon Elastic Block Store
• Amazon Glacier

 

• Amazon Elastic Block Store

It is an additional storage service for long-term cold storage. Enables the users to store their steady and durable data in block-level storage. Gets active when Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) terminates.

Also known as Instances, is a virtual server providing access to the global AWS data centers.

• Amazon Glacier

It is yet another low-cost cloud storage service offered by amazon web services. The main idea here is to store such data, which does not require frequent access but has to be stored for long-term retrieval. It was a successful and gigantic step that has saved large enterprises immense sums of money that would have been spent on cloud storage services.

• Database Management

The amazon web services provide an interface for administration functions like data storage, management, access, performance, etc. This database management is known as Amazon Relational Database Service.

It provides the following critical functions to the users:-

• Migration of workloads to public clouds
• Recovering the migrated data, and
• Taking the backup of their data

Data migration is in itself a massive function. To migrate data, servers, applications, and databases to the public cloud, amazon web services offer an AWS Migration Hub. It manages the complete procedure of migrating the data to the cloud. In addition to an AWS Migration Hub, managed amazon web services provide yet another migration service known as AWS Snowball. It functions similar to that of the hub.

• Networking

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides free networking, giving users complete control and access over the scheduled segments. In addition, it also offers several productive tools to balance the network’s traffic.

• Cloud Configuration and Management Tools

Cloud configuration management tools are two immensely valuable instruments that the amazon web series offer, helping the users deal with cloud resource configuration. In addition, AWS has another tool named AWS Trusted Advisor. The trusted advisor tool helps the users configure efficiently based on protection, error lenience, cost-effectiveness, and arrangement enhancement.

• Security

To enable the users to get access to cloud resources, AWS offers the following services:-

1. AWS Identity
2. Access Management (IAM)

The users of amazon web services have complete control and power to create custom policies and rules for their multiple personal accounts. AWS has gigantic data and information from different clients and users globally. Every customer demands to keep their data confidential and secure, so does AWS. The AWS offers top-notch robust security that has catered to the needs and wants of all.

• Amazon Messaging Services

Competing with everybody’s belief, amazon web services have accomplished offering some of the greatest messaging services of all time. These messaging services consist of:-

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
• Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Each of the mentioned messaging services is unique and impressive in its way. What makes the Amazon Simple Queue Service stand out is its quick and robust message queuing service which can send, receive, and store messages and data.

On the other hand, Amazon Simple Notification Service is a flexible service, pushing notifications to the users. It makes sure that the users get all messages as fast as possible.

Lastly, there is Amazon Simple Email Services. It is an amazing email service, enabling users to send business-specific promotional and transactional emails.

• AWS Development Tools

AWS offers a wide variety of application services that manage different services and AWS customized applications. Some of the development tools are mentioned below:-

1. AWS Command Line Interface
2. Software Development Kits (SDKs)

The development tools are supported by almost all platforms and software, including iOS, C++, Android, Java, Python, PHP, NodeJS, and Ruby.

In addition, Software Development Kits (SDKs) also offer the following services:-

1. Amazon API Gateway,
2. AWS Serverless Application Model, and
3. Several others.

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AWS Managed Services Features

– Help with deployment and scalability: As your business grows and your needs change, you’ll want to evolve and grow with AWS. With AWS managed services you don’t have to worry about any of the time-consuming tasks associated with deploying new servers or finding ways to scale up.

– Automated performance tuning: AWS manages your server’s performance and alerts you when things go wrong.

– Server security and backup: Security is an important aspect of running a business, especially when using a large service like AWS. With managed services, you get 24/7 monitoring for all your AWS instances for security threats and vulnerabilities that can compromise your server’s performance. You can also set up automated backups to protect your data from theft or deletion.

– 24/7 support: As your day-to-day IT admin, you won’t have to worry about whether or not your server is up and running. AWS will make sure that it is.

AWS Managed Services Pricing

The AWS Managed Services Price List contains pricing for 11 tiers of Availability Zones, with the highest level of service being offered at the lowest price. Prices vary depending on which zone tier you select. You can calculate your total cost for each zone tier by multiplying the Price per Hour (in USD) by the number of hours required in one year. The Total Cost column reflects the average to compute the yearly costs for this particular zone tier (based on 1 hour = 86400 seconds).

The total cost for a 1-year commitment with AWS Managed Services is $486,800. The Total Cost column listed in the table below reflects average costs for long-term deployments per each Availability Zone. For example, if you select the highest tier (US East), your Total Cost will be approximately $1,307,200.

AWS Managed Service Provider Partner Program

AWS is very excited to announce the launch of the AWS MSP Partner Program, a new community for AWS MSPs. This community will help our partners grow their businesses on AWS with the latest industry trends and best practices that are happening in our partner ecosystem. Leverage your knowledge of limited IT resources with this program, which includes technical expertise with Oracle, Cisco, Dell EMC, VMware, Gartner, and more.

AWS MSP partners can be found in our partner directory here. In addition, AWS MSP partners can be found in our Facebook and LinkedIn groups, where AWS is actively asking for direct feedback so we can serve you better.

How to use Managed Amazon Web Services?

There is a sequence of steps to be followed, from understanding the amazon web services to putting them to use.

The first step is to plan out the data and messages that one needs to migrate to the public cloud services, followed by getting access to the service platform via the amazon web series.

Why Use Amazon Web Services?

• Easy To Use

Amazon web services is a simplified platform, which is easy to operate by the users. The application providers are capable of securing host application servers.

• Flexibility 

The users of AWS can build a customized infrastructure as per the needs suiting best to individual needs. Amazon web services give the users the flexibility to choose the following as required:-

1. Operating system
2. programming language
3. web app platform
4. database, and
5. other services.

• Cost-effective

The amazon web services save huge costs the large enterprises that would otherwise have spent on storage. The users have to pay only for the power, computation, and storage, making the AWS cost-effective and efficient.

• Security

AWS offers premium quality to all its clients concerning data and messages, notwithstanding the company’s size. It offers regular 24/7 customer services at the data centers solving any query regarding the usage or configuration.

• Reliability and performance

Amazon has offered a full package infrastructure that gives the customers the full right to be reliable on the services offered by amazon web. Users can customize and upgrade the services on demand.

In addition, it minimizes downtime by acquiring the required resources and reducing the risk of migration failures.

Customer Support available to the users

Amazon web services offer 24/7 one-to-one customer care to the users, giving detailed solutions to the issues regarding technological and functional matters. The customers also can get a tailor-made block suited to their requirements.

The AWS support system includes various performance resolutions concerning various services and tools. Some frequently solved queries include:-

• How to use the AWS
• How to get access to certain features and benefits of AWS
• What is the procedure for deploying and integrating the applications to the cloud?
• How to troubleshoot API issues
• How to resolve system problems regarding its operation
• Usage of management tools
• Health check errors
• Third-party, concerning storage configuration and applications.

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AWS Managed Services FAQs

Today we have a FAQ post full of answers to common questions people have about managed Amazon Web Services.

Q. What’s the catch?

The catch is: Managing your site isn’t cheap!

Q. What if I don’t want to pay for managed Amazon Web Services?

You can sign up for a free trial of Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing and host your site on EC2. Otherwise, if you don’t want to sign up for EC2, you can still host your website with us by purchasing a regular hosting plan and installing WordPress on it.

Q. Where can I sign up for managed Amazon Web Services?

You can sign up for a free trial on the Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing page. We also have regular hosting plans and we are currently running a special on .com domains. You can view those packages here.

Q. Do I need to spend a lot of money on my hosting plan?

No, you don’t need to spend a lot of money on your hosting plan. If you use our .com domain packages (which are very reasonable), or if you purchase a regular hosting plan and install WordPress on it, you’re way better off than paying for managed Amazon Web Services.

Q. Which package should I get?

We recommend you go with our free trial if you don’t want to spend a lot of money on hosting.

If you do decide to go with our paid hosting plans, make sure that the package has enough resources for your needs. The number of website visits you get will determine how many resources your site needs.

Q. How much does managed Amazon Web Services cost?

If you want to host your site with us on EC2, the price is $0.05 per hour per instance per month (which means $1.96 per month). The price goes up depending on how much data you upload every month and how many pages you have in your site. If you’re uploading between 100 and 1000 MB of data, it will cost you between $0.05 and $0.10 per hour. The more you download, the cheaper it is: $0.05 to $0.10 per hour.

Q. Can I host multiple sites on .com domains?

No, hosting a site with us is limited to one domain name (your domain name will be parked in our account). The only exception is if you have a VM that you would like to host with us as well, in which case you can host your VM with us at no extra cost.

Q. Can I host multiple sites on .net or .org domains?

No, hosting a site with us is limited to one domain name (your domain name will be parked in our account). The only exception is if you have a VM that you would like to host with us as well, in which case you can host your VM with us at no extra cost.

The Bottom Line 

Over the time that the craziest invention of AWS has aired, AWS has given a new dimension to the advancements of artificial intelligence.

The Amazon web services have contributed to society with such inventions that we didn’t know we needed unless served on our plates. It has added to the visual recognition of your applications. Not only has it simplified the tasks of any given enterprise, but it also has built a connected interface with its products like cloud contact, smart drone, amazon lex, and whatnot.

Hopefully, the article could give you a glimpse of this gigantic world of AI that AWS has built and conquered.