AWS Is Pioneering a New Type of Cloud Entity
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AWS Is Pioneering a New Type of Cloud Entity
AWS is moving beyond IaaS to turn the cloud into a programmable entity that goes beyond PaaS as we know it today. -
Size and Scope of AWS
There are now 11 AWS regions around the world serving millions of businesses. AWS added 516 new features in 2014. -
Managing AWS
There are seven compute types and five database classes of service. The database services are managed via a DynamoDB control plane that enables IT organizations to define database parameters, versus manually configuring them. -
AWS Embraces APIs
A new AWS API Gateway provides a mechanism to programmatically invoke both infrastructure and backend applications using REST APIs. Gateway is linked to AWS Cognito identity services. -
AWS Pushes Into Microservices Using Docker Containers
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Container Service provides a scheduler for managing long-running Docker applications. -
The Rise of Event-Driven Architecture in the Cloud
AWS is championing a shift to event-driven architecture using metadata managed via DynamoDB to invoke a "serverless" backend platform, known as AWS Lambda. In turn, AWS Lambda feeds into the AWS Kinesis real-time data processing engine. -
AWS Leads DevOps Charge
AWS announced the general availability of AWS CodeComm, a revision-control service, and AWS Pipeline, a service for managing code development and deployment. -
Amazon Elastic File System Creates a Common Data Source
Shared file systems based on a Network File System (NFS) allow multiple instances of EC2 to access the same distributed data sources. -
AWS Moves Beyond Shadow IT
An AWS Service Catalog provides a mechanism to provision access to AWS services in a way that provides an audit trail to meet compliance requirements. It also provides budget and forecasting tools. -
Next Up for AWS
AWS is making investments in machine learning to create predictive models to automate every aspect of IT.
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Why Metrics Matter to the Channel There's a tendency to dismiss Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a provider of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings that IT organizations invoke on demand like any other. The reality is much more nuanced. Over the last year, AWS has wrapped a variety of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies intended to blur the line between IaaS and PaaS. For example, an AWS Lamba is a compute service that programmatically responds to application events. Now AWS is adding an AWS API Gateway to provide an API management service through which developers can invoke a variety of backend services and applications. AWS has also rolled out a Docker container service and a global file system through which the next generation of modern apps can be built. What's more, AWS has made available an AWS Service Catalog through which access to those services can be provisioned and audited. Put all the AWS pieces together, and it appears that solution providers across the channel should take note that AWS is rapidly pioneering the development of a new type of cloud entity that redefines what it means to be a public cloud service provider.