The AWS overview
In the land of cloud infrastructure, AWS is the king. It was the first of its kind, launched in 2005, and is the largest by a wide margin. It is ranked number one in every segment of Gartner magic quadrants on cloud infrastructure providers.
As reported by Computerworld in 2016, it has ten times the compute capacity of its 14 closest rivals combined. Entire companies, such as Netflix and AirBnB, run their operations on it. As can be seen in the following chart, AWS has over 30% of the market share, with the next closest competitor at 9%.
AWS offers a wide range of services from networking to compute to IoT. The following is a listing of the services from AWS management console. The management console is where you launch new services, monitor existing ones, and review billing:
AWS services list. Source: AWS management console
You can reduce these into three categories of services that you need to have configured properly to support your analytics: networking, compute, and storage...
