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Amazon Cloud Services of AWS features are categorized on the basis of their computing power, storage and content delivery, networking, application services, administration and security, analytics, deployment and management, mobile services, enterprise applications, AWS Support, AWS Marketplace Software. Its pricing structure completely depend on the usage of these features for different applications. AWS managed services includes managing these features through a console to make the optimum use of the resources available at the best price. Computing capacity is managed by EC2 ( Elastic Cloud Computing or Servers ), which is flexible and fast enough to reduce actual time taken to boot new server instances. Pricing is supported in three ways on demand, spot instance and reserved instances. EC2 container service manages a cluster of EC2 instances for managing distributed applications. No additional charges for using this service.AWS Lambda is a computing feature package that automatically manages resources by scaling up and down based on requests.Very responsive and automatically adjusts to events. Priced based on computing time in the tune of 100 milliseconds. Autoscaling feature which helps to run applications & resources to scale up and down automatically. No charges for this feature, it is complementary with AWS Lambda or EC2. Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud ) is a private network for managing backend without any internet access with multi layered security wall. No additional charges for this feature, but, charge for VPN connection. Elastic Load Balancing ( ELB ) helps to distribute incoming traffic from an app into multiple EC2 instances. This helps to lower pressure on resources. Prices were charged based on per hour and the GB of data transferred. Storage and Content delivery is managed by S3 ( Simple Storage Service ) to store and retrieve any amount of data as in when required. It has support features like storage, analytics, archiving, disaster recovery. Charged on the basis of per GB storage till 1TB for 1 st month. Amazon Glacier is a specialized service for data archiving and backup. It cannot be retrieved as fast as S3. Glacier store data in a vault format and S3 stores in any format. Glacier charge on per GB storage basis. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage ) stores data in volume and in a block format. Charge per GB storage basis. Elastic File System (EFS) is another subsidiary component which helps in automatic scaling while storing different file systems. Payment in GB for file system storage. AWS Import/Export to take in and out the file system using a portable device. Pricing is chargeable for each storage device. AWS STorage Gateway for integrating on premise storage appliance with Cloud storage. Free of cost for using gateway. Amazon Cl oudFront is a content delivery web service and distribute contents to developers and businesses at low latency, high data transfer speeds. Pricing is based on per GB usage. AWS manage databases through relational database and NoSQL database services. Its components are Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Cache. Amazon RDS ( Relational Database Service) can create, operate and scale database in MySQL, Oracle, SQL server and Postgre SQL format in Cloud. Amazon DynamoDB supports NoSQL database on Cloud. It has flat hourly rate. Amazon Redshift supports business intelligence data and has all scalable properties. Charges on per hour basis. Amazon ElastiCache helps to deploy, operate and scale up in memory cache in the Cloud. Chargeable on per hour basis. AWS Consultant have to deeply understand and analyze Amazon product features and its used case scenario to understand its pricing structure. There are many more features left to be discussed for better understanding. AWS resellers who manages Cloud Infrastructure and architecture of the enterprises on behalf of Amazon have to be well versed with the updated AWS products to receive the best pricing. Michel Jacob is the author of this article on AWS managed services. Find more information, about AWS Consultant here
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