Amazon Web Services (AWS) – 2 – AWS specific Terms

Few more terms and discussion topics specific to Amazon Web Services (AWS)  are listed below:

AWS Regions

Simply put a physical location in the world where AWS has Availability Zones

AWS Availability Zones

• Availability zones are part of a region
• Availability Zones consist of one or more separately located data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.
• So if you want to make your application highly available then plan to distribute among different availability zones

So to make your application fault tolerant, highly available and more global you can distribute your instances/data among different regions and in those regions also, you can put it in different availability zones. This is a huge benefit as compared to the old conventional method where you create 1 or 2 data centers as creating/managing multiple data centers in itself a costly operation. This possibility of distributing your data/applications/instances across whole world is truly a gamechanger.

AWS Security

Security is one key area where many CxO feels little skeptical but if we understand closely Cloud industry is getting more mature and AWS is leading it in maturity model.

AWS will take care security of the Cloud at the network, storage, infrastructure layer. At application/data level, security decisions are still with you. So Security has become a “shared” responsibility. Unlike on-premise systems, where you are responsible for security end-to-end. There are various cloud based security tools which you can harness to manage/monitor you applications/database in secure way.

AWS Cloud Compliance

AWS takes all measures to maintain security and data protection in the cloud. Compliance responsibilities for the AWS Cloud infrastructure is with AWS but compliance for the application/database is with client. AWS complies with multiple assurance programs like ISO 9001, ISO 27001, SOC 1/ISAE 3402, SOC 2 etc.

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Brijesh Gogia

I’m an experienced Cloud/Oracle Applications/DBA Architect with more than 15 years of full-time DBA/Architect experience. I have gained wide knowledge on Oracle and Non-Oracle software stack running on-prem and on Cloud and have worked on several big projects for multi-national companies. I enjoy working with leading-edge technology and have a passion for Cloud architecture, automation, database performance, and stability. Thankfully my work allows me time for researching new technologies (and to write about them).

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