1. Amazon Web Services Product Stack
and Infrastructure Layout
Dayanand Shanmugham
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dayanandshanmugham
http://dkangala.wordpress.com
January 2013
2. Amazon Web Services
http://aws.amazon.com/
1. Amazon Web Services offers a complete set of infrastructure and
application services that enable us to run virtually everything in the cloud
– from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and
mobile apps.
2. In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure
services to businesses in the form of web services – now commonly
known as cloud computing.
3. Key benefits is opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure
expenses with low variable costs that scale with our business:
a. Low Cost - Pay-as-you-go pricing
b. Agility and Instant Elasticity - Massive global cloud infrastructure
c. Open and Flexible - Language and operating system agnostic platform
d. Secure - PCI DSS Level 1, ISO 27001, FISMA Moderate, HIPAA & SAS 70 Type II