Overview of Amazon Web Services (part 2)

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Global Infrastructure

AWS is steadily expanding its global infrastructure to help their customers achieve lower latency and higher throughput while also making sure that their data resides only in the AWS region they specify. The AWS Cloud infrastructure is built around AWS Regions and Availability Zones. An AWS Region is known as a physical location in the world having multiple Availability Zones which in turn also consists of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities. 

In order to achieve higher fault tolerance and stability, each Amazon Region is designed to be completely isolated from the other Amazon Regions whereas Availability Zones are connected through low-latency links in a Region. Availability Zones are designed as an independent failure zone i.e. they are physically separated within a typical metropolitan region and are located in lower risk flood plains. Discrete Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) as well as onsite backup generation facilities are also provided by the independent substations along with the data centers situated in various Availability Zones, to reduce any risk of an event of the power grid impacting more than one Availability Zone.

Security & Compliance

Security

An AWS customer don't have to worry about managing the physical servers or storage devices, on the contrary, you can readily use software-based security tools to monitor as well as protect the flow of information into and out of your cloud resources. One of the advantages of the AWS Cloud is that it permits you to scale as well as innovate, while also maintaining a secure environment and paying only for the services you use i.e. you can have the required security that too at a lower cost than in an on-premises environment.

You can also get access to hundreds of tools as well as features by helping you to meet your security objectives by offering security-specific tools and features across network security, configuration management, access control, and data encryption. AWS environments are continuously audited with certifications from accreditation bodies across geographies and verticals where you can also take advantage of automated tools for asset inventory as well as privileged access reporting.   

Benefits of AWS Security

  • Keep your data safe- The AWS infrastructure keeps strong safeguards in place to help protect your privacy and all the data is stored in highly secure AWS data centers.

  • Meet compliance requirements- AWS is capable of managing dozens of compliance programs in its infrastructure i.e. the segments of your compliance have already been completed.

  • Save money- You can cut the costs with the help of AWS data centers by maintaining the highest standard of security without worrying about your own facility. 

  • Scale quickly- Security scales with your AWS Cloud usage. No matter the size of your business, the AWS infrastructure is designed to keep your data safe.   

Compliance

AWS Cloud Compliance allows you to understand the robust controls in place at AWS to maintain security as well as data protection in the cloud. As the systems are built on top of AWS Cloud Infrastructure, compliance responsibilities will be shared by tying together governance-focused, audit-friendly service features with applicable compliance or audit standards, AWS Compliance enablers build on traditional programs which considerably helps the customers to establish and operate in an AWS security control environment. 

The IT infrastructure that AWS offers to its customers is designed as well as managed in alignment with the best security practices and a variety of IT security standards and it also provides a wide range of information on its IT control environment whitepapers, reports, certifications, accreditations, and the other third-party attestations.  








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