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Overview of Amazon Web Services AWS Whitepaper Table of Contents Overview of Amazon Web Services ....................................................................................................... 1 Abstract .................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1 What Is Cloud Computing? .................................................................................................................. 2 Six Advantages of Cloud Computing ..................................................................................................... 3 Types of Cloud Computing .................................................................................................................. 4 Cloud Computing Models ............................................................................................................ 4 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) .......................................................................................... 4 Platform as a Service (PaaS) ................................................................................................ 4 Software as a Service (SaaS) ................................................................................................ 4 Cloud Computing Deployment Models .......................................................................................... 4 Cloud ................................................................................................................................ 4 Hybrid .............................................................................................................................. 5 On-premises ...................................................................................................................... 5 Global Infrastructure .......................................................................................................................... 6 Security and Compliance ..................................................................................................................... 7 Security .................................................................................................................................... 7 Benefits of AWS Security .................................................................................................... 7 Compliance ............................................................................................................................... 7 Amazon Web Services Cloud ............................................................................................................... 9 AWS Management Console .......................................................................................................... 9 AWS Command Line Interface ..................................................................................................... 9 Software Development Kits ....................................................................................................... 10 Analytics ................................................................................................................................. 10 Amazon Athena ............................................................................................................... 10 Amazon CloudSearch ........................................................................................................ 10 Amazon Elasticsearch Service ............................................................................................. 11 Amazon EMR ................................................................................................................... 11 Amazon FinSpace ............................................................................................................. 11 Amazon Kinesis ................................................................................................................ 11 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose ............................................................................................ 12 Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics ........................................................................................... 12 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams ............................................................................................ 12 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams ........................................................................................... 12 Amazon Redshift .............................................................................................................. 12 Amazon QuickSight .......................................................................................................... 13 AWS Data Exchange ......................................................................................................... 13 AWS Data Pipeline ............................................................................................................ 13 AWS Glue ........................................................................................................................ 13 AWS Lake Formation ........................................................................................................ 14 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) ............................................... 14 Application Integration ............................................................................................................. 14 AWS Step Functions ......................................................................................................... 15 Amazon AppFlow ............................................................................................................. 15 Amazon EventBridge ......................................................................................................... 15 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) ...................................................... 15 Amazon MQ .................................................................................................................... 16 Amazon Simple Notification Service ................................................................................... 16 Amazon Simple Queue Service ........................................................................................... 16 Amazon Simple Workflow Service ...................................................................................... 16 AR and VR ............................................................................................................................... 16 Amazon Sumerian ............................................................................................................ 17 Blockchain ............................................................................................................................... 17 Amazon Managed Blockchain ............................................................................................. 17 iii Overview of Amazon Web Services AWS Whitepaper Business Applications ................................................................................................................ 17 Alexa for Business ............................................................................................................ 18 Amazon Chime ................................................................................................................. 18 Amazon SES .................................................................................................................... 18 Amazon WorkDocs ............................................................................................................ 18 Amazon WorkMail ............................................................................................................ 18 Cloud Financial Management ..................................................................................................... 19 AWS Application Cost Profiler ............................................................................................ 19 AWS Cost Explorer ............................................................................................................ 19 AWS Budgets ................................................................................................................... 19 AWS Cost & Usage Report ................................................................................................. 19 Reserved Instance (RI) Reporting ........................................................................................ 20 Savings Plans ................................................................................................................... 20 Compute Services ....................................................................................................................