With Steve Riley starts his new role as evangelist and strategist for Amazon Web Services, we been introduced about Amazon business model on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
The Amazon’s cloud computing approach follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model. AWS includes these components:
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)—virtual server instances on which you run your choice of operating systems, web servers, and applications
- Simple Storage Service (S3)—persistent data object stores accessible through several standard protocols
- SimpleDB—web-based data indexing and querying services without complex schemas
- Simple Queue Service (SQS)—a message queuing service integrated with EC2 and other AWS services
- CloudFront—a content delivery service for data served up from S3 stores close to end users
- Elastic MapReduce—a hosted Hadoop framework for processing large amounts of data