How Big Enterprises Get Benefited From AWS.
Amazon Web Service (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide a variety of basic abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools.
The services provided by AWS Cloud which make it different from other cloud service providers. It provides servers, storage, networking, remote computing, email, mobile development, and security to its customers. It offers three pillars of services:
- EC2 (Virtual Machine service)
- Glacier (Cloud Storage service)
- S3 (Storage System)
AWS case study:-
Insights Supports Digital Transformation and Speeds Development
Insights, a global leader in self-awareness and people development solutions, helps companies across the globe get the best from their employees by increasing their self-understanding. The company has offices in 18 countries and its solutions have been translated into 39 languages. Six million people have experienced Insights Discovery, Insights’ flagship people development solution.
Marcus Corner, Technology architect at Insights, says, “One of the limitations of the traditional data center was that we had to purchase new equipment every time we needed to scale the environment to support new users. It could take weeks for us to acquire and provision hardware, which wasn’t sustainable or scalable.” Insights also planned to expand its analytical services. “They needed to do more with data analytics, but they were limited in the data center environment,” says Corner.
Migrating Insights Online to AWS
To migrate to AWS, Insights engaged Cloudsoft, an Advanced Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN). Cloudsoft provided architectural guidance and migration assistance to help Insights move its SQL Server–based environment to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. “Cloudsoft was instrumental in the migration,” Corner says. “It did a lot of the heavy lifting, which made the project more manageable, reduced risk, and helped up-skill our team.”
Insights also takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront as its content delivery network. In addition, it relies on AWS CloudFormation scripts to automate the provisioning of new application environments.
Increasing Development Velocity to Deliver Features Faster
Insights is taking advantage of the agility of AWS to help its developers quickly stand up development and testing environments. “New application features could take some time to deploy because of the limitations of the on-premises data center,” says Corner. “By using AWS CloudFormation to automate provisioning, we can create new environments in a few minutes. Our infrastructure is now supporting increased innovation and development of services for our customers.”
Providing a Better User Experience
Additionally, Insights will be able to improve overall system performance, giving users a better and faster application experience. “By using Amazon CloudFront, we can distribute our web content to provide the best performance,” says Corner. “We are a global business, but latency could cause some issues. Now we can choose which edge locations we want to deploy in to be as close to users as possible. This will give them a much faster and better experience when they’re using our application.”
Benefits of AWS
- Creates new application environments in a few minutes
- Scales to support millions of expected monthly users
- Improves website performance for global users
AWS Services Used by Insights
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS CloudFormation
