{"id":4502,"date":"2019-08-06T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2024-03-21T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T04:38:12","slug":"10-essential-aws-services-to-built-a-powerful-cloud-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/10-essential-aws-services-to-built-a-powerful-cloud-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Essential AWS Services to Built A Powerful Cloud Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last two decades, cloud computing has brought dramatic changes in the IT industry. It eliminated the need of spending precious time and resources on setting-up data centers, scaling, upgrading and maintaining them \u2014 and even liberated businesses from the cost of floor space and electricity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the massive spur of technology startups around the globe wouldn&#8217;t be possible without cloud computing services. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One such cloud computing service provider that has made cloud infrastructure affordable and easily available is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Web Service<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is one of the pioneers in the industry and in fact, the largest one with almost 32% of the total <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalys.com\/newsroom\/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-and-full-year-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cloud computing market share<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/solutions\/case-studies\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">list of AWS users<\/a> includes thousands of startups and multinational behemoths including companies like NetFlix, GE, NASA, AOL, SoundCloud, Coursera,\u00a0Rovio Entertainment, BBC, Coca-Cola, Yelp and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even we here at Techuz have been using a number of AWS services for our web, mobile and SaaS-based projects.<\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in this post, we decided to share our experience and explain the essential AWS services that you\u2019ll need to build your powerful architecture. We\u2019ll discuss the following services:<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><div class=\"highlited-sec\">\n<h2><span>COMPUTE<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#amazon_ec2\">Amazon EC2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#amazon_beanstalk\">Amazon Elastic BeanStalk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#aws_lambda\">AWS Lambda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span>STORAGE<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#amazon_s3\">Amazon S3\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span>MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#amazon_cloudwatch\">Amazon CloudWatch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#aws_auto\">AWS Auto Scaling<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span>NETWORKING AND DELIVERY<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#amazon_cloud\">Amazon CloudFront\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#elastic\">Elastic Load Balancing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span>SECURITY<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#amazon_ins\">Amazon Inspector<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#aws_shield\">AWS Shield\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><br><\/br><h2 id=\"amazon_ec2\"><strong>1. Amazon EC2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a service that allows you to set-up virtual servers and deploy your application in just a few minutes. All you need to do is select the type of EC2 servers known as instances, operating system and select the number of instances you\u2019ll need. You can also configure its security, networking and manage storage just like a physical server.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EC2 provides you varied options for instances based on the use case such as GPU-optimized, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, compute-optimized or general-purpose instances. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4553 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-2.png-e1564994521485.jpg\" alt=\"Types of EC2 instances\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-2.png-e1564994521485.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-2.png-e1564994521485-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-2.png-e1564994521485-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-2.png-e1564994521485-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-2.png-e1564994521485-460x260.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, you also get to choose these instances based on the cost model and are divided into three categories:<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>On-Demand Instances<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/pricing\/on-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">On-Demand instances<\/a>, you only pay for the service you use per hour and can easily scale up or scale down the computing capacity as per the needs. On-Demand instances are great if you don\u2019t want any long term commitment or avoid planning the traffic spikes in advance.<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>Reserved Instances<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EC2 <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/pricing\/reserved-instances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reserved instances<\/a> allow you to reserve the servers for the computing capacity you need in advance. You can select this type of instances if the computing capacity is predictable. The best part is, it provides you a massive discount of up to 75% compared to On-Demand Instances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>Spot Instances <\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/using-spot-instances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spot Instances<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the spare and unused EC2 instances that you can bid to use at a discounted price (up to 90% compared to On-Demand Instances).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever EC2 reclaims your spot instances, they will be interrupted and the interruption behavior is to terminate them by default. But you can even configure to\u00a0hibernate or stop the spot instances as per your needs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This type of instance can be used for stateless, fault-tolerant or flexible applications and can help you to significantly lower the server cost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can always combine Spot Instances with On-Demand or Reserved Instances to optimize cost and performance at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-based-on-cost.jpg\" alt=\"Types of AWS EC2 instances based on cost\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-based-on-cost.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-based-on-cost-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-based-on-cost-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-based-on-cost-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Types-of-instances-based-on-cost-460x260.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"amazon_beanstalk\"><strong>2. Amazon Elastic BeanStalk<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a number of features and functionalities you\u2019ll need for deploying and managing your web application. Even if you are using AWS, you have to integrate varied services for different functionalities. At times, deciding which service to use, managing and provisioning them can be frustrating. And all this ends up in deviating your focus from enhancing your product to managing the system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where Elastic BeanStalk comes in. This AWS service makes the process of app deployment and management easy and convenient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You just need to upload your application and provide some information and beanstalk will automatically handle the deployment details of your app such as provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling and health monitoring. Once you have deployed your application, you can manage the environment and even deploy the new versions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-does-Beanstalk-work.png\" alt=\"How does AWS Beanstalk work\" width=\"634\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-does-Beanstalk-work.png 634w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-does-Beanstalk-work-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-does-Beanstalk-work-460x125.png 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this automation doesn&#8217;t mean that your application will have to work with only the predetermined configuration. You retain full power to change the resources as per your needs anytime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The best part is you don\u2019t have to pay any additional charges for Amazon Elastic BeanStalk. You just pay for the AWS resources you use for your application.<\/p><br><\/br><h2 id=\"aws_lambda\"><strong>3. AWS Lambda<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Lambda is a \u201cserverless\u201d compute service designed to run backend code in response to events such as HTTP requests, changes in data, shifts in system state or actions in the web or mobile app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason AWS lambda is termed as serverless is that it does not require you to configure the instances as in EC2. All you need to do is upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6>Suggested Read &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/steps-creating-serverless-microservice-aws-lambda\/\">Steps for Creating Serverless Microservice Architecture with AWS Lambda<\/a><\/h6><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s how it works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-AWS-works.png\" alt=\"How AWS Lambda works\" width=\"951\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-AWS-works.png 951w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-AWS-works-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-AWS-works-768x223.png 768w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-AWS-works-460x134.png 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upload your code to Lambda or write code in Labda\u2019s code editor \u2192 Set up the code to trigger with other AWS services such as <em>S3, DynamoDB or any in-app activity<\/em> \u2192 Whenever Lambda receives the request, it will run the code automatically using the necessary resources. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Amazon charges only for actual milliseconds of computing time required to execute the code. There are no charges when code is not running. Thus, you get a cost-effective compute service that too with zero administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><br><\/br><h2 id=\"amazon_s3\"><strong>4. Amazon S3\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that lets you store and retrieve the data anytime and from anywhere on the web. You can get started with it simply by creating a bucket in the region you want to store the data. (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/dev\/UsingBucket.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">S3 buckets<\/a> are the containers where the objects are stored. You can create several buckets as per the needs and purposes.)<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This service is popularly used across different industries and a range of use cases such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices and big data analytics. You get <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/s3\/storage-classes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three types of storage<\/a> designed for specific use cases. They are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>S3 Standard<\/strong> for frequently accessed data.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>S3 Infrequent Access<\/strong> for less frequently accessed data such as backups and long-term storage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Amazon Glacier<\/strong> for long term archival storage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon S3 focuses on catering all the three benefits \u2014 scalability, security and cost-effectiveness \u2014 that you need in a storage service.<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>Scalability <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; You can use as much as storage you want as per the needs without the need of predicting and planning in advance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>Security <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Amazon S3 automatically creates a copy of the data on multiple devices that makes the data secure. It also allows you to preserve and restore the previous versions of the objects, so in case if there is any system failure or if the user deletes the objects accidentally, you can recover it anytime. S3 also lets you control the access your data with Access Control Management policies, bucket policies and query string authentication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>Cost-effectiveness &#8211; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like many other AWS services, with S3 you just need to pay for the service used. There is no set-up fee or minimum charges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"post-title\">Suggested Read &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/benefits-deploying-react-app-amazon-s3-cloud-front\/\">Benefits of Deploying React App on Amazon S3 and Cloud Front<\/a><\/h6><br><\/br><h2><strong>5. Amazon Cloud Watch<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon CloudWatch provides real-time monitoring and management service for AWS resources and applications. It collects and tracks metrics that help you to manage and optimize resources for better performance and makes the work of developers, system operators and system managers easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get all the data about the AWS service you use right at the homepage and can also create a custom dashboard for your custom applications. You can set alarms to look after the metrics, automate tasks, get insights to optimize the services and troubleshoot the issues.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Cloud Watch can be used to monitor 70 AWS services including\u00a0<em>EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS DB instances, Elastic Load Balancers and more<\/em>. For example, monitoring the CPU usage of EC2 and determine whether you need additional instances to handle the application. The data collected can also help you to save cost by stop using under-used resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately CloudFront provides you with vital information and insights that help you to run your application smoothly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><h2 id=\"aws_auto\"><strong>6. AWS Auto Scaling<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Auto Scaling monitors the application and automatically adjusts the capacity of computation resources to maintain its performance. It is a free service that allows you to monitor and scale different resources all in one single interface without the need to navigate to other consoles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With AWS Auto Scaling you can set up scaling automation for a number of AWS services such as Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes and Amazon Aurora Replicas. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Auto Scaling doesn\u2019t only increase the number of resources when there is a surge in the demand but also downgrades them during the lull that saves you costs. Thus, AWS Auto Scaling monitors the application and automatically adds or reduces the resources as per the needs in real-time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><h2 id=\"amazon_cloud\"><strong>\u00a07. AWS CloudFront<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS CloudFront is Amazon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/what-is-content-delivery-network-and-benefits-of-cdn\/\">content delivery network<\/a> to deliver the static and dynamic web content such as images, videos, applications and APIs at high speed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It delivers the content through its global network of Point of Presence known as edge locations. These data centers have the content cached from the origin server \u2014 so when a user requests the content, it is delivered from the nearest edge location to minimize the delivery time (reduce latency).\u00a0 However, in case if the content isn&#8217;t cached, CloudFront fetches the data from the origin and caches it in the near edge location for the future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Thus with Amazon CloudFront, the user receives the content with minimum delay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CLoudFront-Edge-Locations.png\" alt=\"AWS CloudFront Edge Locations\" width=\"1501\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CLoudFront-Edge-Locations.png 1501w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CLoudFront-Edge-Locations-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CLoudFront-Edge-Locations-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CLoudFront-Edge-Locations-1024x581.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.techuz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CLoudFront-Edge-Locations-460x260.png 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Edge locations spread across different geographical locations)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CloudFront can also be seamlessly integrated with other AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 or Elastic load balancing as origins of the data, AWS Shield for mitigating DDoS attacks and even <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/lambda\/edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lambda@Edge<\/a> for customizing content delivery.<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like other AWS services, CloudFront offers simple payment systems of the pay-as-you-go model without any set-up fees or long term contracts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><h2 id=\"elastic\"><strong>8. Elastic Load Balancing\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your application or website might have to cater millions of concurrent requests at a time. This means that you\u2019ll need to scale your servers (Auto Scaling) to fulfill a large number of requests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, just adding the servers won\u2019t help if the traffic is not distributed systematically across the servers. You need an intermediate service that can identify the request, check the servers and route the request to the appropriate server.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s when the Elastic Load Balancing comes in. It distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, including\u00a0 Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. It works as a \u201ctraffic cop\u201d that routes the users\u2019 requests to the different targets checking their availability and capability thus, maximizing the speed and performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elastic Load Balancing offers three different types of load balancers used for different traffic distribution use cases: Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer and Classic Load Balancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from distributing the requests, ELB can be configured to monitor the health of the resources. This makes it possible to route the requests only to the healthy resources, maximizing the availability and fault tolerance of the application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><br><\/br><h2 id=\"amazon_ins\"><strong>9. AWS Inspector<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security assessment is an indispensable part of any IT infrastructure \u2014 whether it be on-premise or cloud. You need to make sure your infrastructure is free from any vulnerabilities that can compromise the security. AWS inspector is one such service that helps you improve security and compliance of application deployed on AWS. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Inspector automates the security assessment and evaluates the loopholes, vulnerabilities and compliance to the best practices. These assessments are powered by a set of rules that are based on common best security practices. Here\u2019s how it works.<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Inspector runs the automated assessment and collects the behavioral data of the AWS resources. Once the data is collected, it compares it with the set of predefined security rules. And finally, it produces a report based on the findings that are prioritized by the level of security. Thus, you can take the necessary actions to safeguard your application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><h2 id=\"aws_shield\"><strong>10. AWS Shield\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Shield is service providing protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for the applications hosted on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that helps in curtailing the downtime and latency due to DDoS attacks. This service comes in two tiers: Standard and Advanced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>AWS Shield Standard<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Shield Standard is a free service that defends all AWS users against DDoS attacks at no extra cost. It protects the applications against the most common network and transport layer attacks on websites and applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><p><b>AWS Shield Advanced<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Shield Advanced is a premium service that provides more features and a higher level of protection against DDoS attacks. You get features and functionalities such as detection and mitigation against DDoS attacks on a large scale, web application firewall, near real-time visibility into attacks, 24&#215;7 support from AWS DDoS Response Team and more. The charges of AWS Shield Advanced is additional to the standard fees other AWS services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><h2><strong>What\u2019s next?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now you are aware of the 10 essential Amazon Web Services you need to build a powerful cloud architecture. These services are even great to get started with cloud computing journey and lower IT costs, get better performance and scale. If you want to explore more about these services, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/free\/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&amp;all-free-tier.sort-order=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sign up for a free-tier<\/a> of the AWS and gain some on-hand experience. Or if you would like to hire some experts to migrate your existing service to the cloud or even built one from scratch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techuz.com\">Techuz<\/a> will be more than happy to help you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><\/br><br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two decades, cloud computing has brought dramatic changes in the IT industry. 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