Amazon have been using their EC2 cloud for
providing a number of different types of services to the end users, individuals
or, more often, companies. They have a number of services they can provide,
including computing and networking services, storage and content delivery
network, database, analytics as well as deployment and management services. However,
this article will focus on some of their more popular application services,
which usually provide businesses with access to different applications, without
having to upgrade their infrastructure, or hire IT staff responsible for
updating the apps and maintaining them.
Amazon AppStream
A relatively new service, which allows app
developers to host their apps in Amazon’s cloud and distribute them to end
users through convenient clients. The apps use the cloud’s resources to run, so
hardware constraints are eliminated, and the fact that the app is centralized
means that users of different platforms can easily access it through the
platform specific client. This also means that it is much easier to update the
app, and that it will be made available to a much larger group of users than it
otherwise would.
Amazon Cloud Search
This fully managed service allows you to
easily add search capability to your website, without having to have an
intimate knowledge of how search works, or how to implement it. You can create
a database of searchable data, which will be used as the source for ensuing
searches, and you don’t have to worry about the scaling as the volume of data increases,
as it is automatically scaled. Likewise, since the cloud’s resources are used,
you don’t have to worry about modifying your infrastructure.
Amazon Simple Email Service
This service provides with a transactional
and bulk emailing solution, that is not only easy to implement, but that is
perfectly scalable, and for the most part, managed by the provider. Organizations
that need to deal with bulk mailing know just how demanding this aspect of
their business can be. Apart from some of them modifying their infrastructure
to cover the needs of such a system, software requirements can be quite high as
well. Dealing with third party providers of similar solution can also be
somewhat complicated, which is why Amazon takes a huge part in the management
of all your requirements, without demanding too much of your time.
Amazon Simple Workflow Service
Another service aimed at app developers,
SWF allows them to easily coordinate tasks and perform state management for
their running apps. This includes data base creation, automating business
processes, managing your cloud infrastructure services, and doing a number of
other things that will make your life easier. Like other apps on the list, this
one is distinguished by its scalability and the number of convenient options it
provides you with.
Amazon Simple Notification Service
SNS allows you to easily allow your iPhone,
Android or other mobile device to give you cloud notifications, either by using
push messages, or, if you prefer, with a text message. The service is very easy
to set up, and allows you to constantly stay in the loop when it comes to your
notifications, even when you don’t have access to your PC.
Guest Post: Leana Thorne:
Leana
Thorne is a devoted blogger and a regular contributor to several tech blogs.
She enjoys exploring new internet technologies and sharing newly found
information, and loves writing - especially about cloud and reseller
hosting and is always happy to be of
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