Analyze Amazon S3 cloud storage

In the recently released Magic Quadrant for the IaaS Marketplace, Amazon has the largest cloud-computing AWS scale in terms of cloud computing and more computing power than the 14 other vendors in the report. Such a size is undoubtedly the leader in the IaaS market, and Gartner said that Amazon is a thought leader in the cloud computing community and is focused on features that are innovative, flexible, and responsive to market needs.

It is reported that Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS) was first introduced in 2006, in the form of Web services to provide IT infrastructure services to enterprises, which is now the cloud computing. One of its key strengths is the ability to replace upfront capital infrastructure costs with lower variable costs that scale with business development.

Amazon Cloud Computing offers services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon CloudFront, and more .

S3 features: safe, reliable, low price

Elastic computing cloud EC2 is the most familiar, and cloud storage is an essential part of cloud computing services. Amazon cloud storage is divided into four main blocks - Amazon S3, is an Internet-oriented unstructured storage; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), is a structured storage that needs to be used with EC2; Amazon Glacier, It is a very low cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. To reduce costs, Amazon Glacier is designed for infrequently accessed data; the AWS Storage Gateway is actually a service that connects internal software appliances with cloud-based storage between the enterprise's internal IT environment and AWS's storage infrastructure Provide seamless, secure integration.

Guo Bei Jing Amazon AWS S3 product manager

S3 is an important part of Amazon cloud storage, but also the most widely used cloud storage services, this service has been provided to users at the beginning of AWS. As more and more users choose to use the public cloud model, there are also some concerns about the security of sensitive data. When Amazon's AWS S3 product director Guo Beijing talked about this issue, he said the first benefit of S3 is that it is very secure .

First, AWS's infrastructure has a very large scale, Amazon can have a dedicated team to build the infrastructure, and now the market infrastructure Amazon has done. At the infrastructure level, AWS's security certifications have reached the international certification level and are globally uniform.

Second, S3 has a feature that lets customers encrypt data themselves, and AWS automatically encrypts them if they need to be encrypted with AWS.

Third, for Chinese customers, AWS is a segregated area in China, and data in isolated areas is always in this isolated area.

In addition, S3 also has high reliability. The Amazon S3 design guarantees 99.99% availability and 99.999999999% durability. Guo Bei Jing said it is a very high protection, it can be said that the user will be able to put the data into peace of mind, and basically do not have the loss of the situation. Many large customers in Europe and the United States will put their own mission-critical data on S3 inside. Now, S3 has trillions of storage objects and up to 1.5 million concurrent requests per second at its peak.

At present, AWS has a worldwide deployment of up to 10 regions and 51 Edge locations, which also makes the S3 service more accessible to users, and Amazon will continue to invest in this direction to add more Coverage area.

In addition to security and reliability, S3 is also attractive at a low cost. Guo Bei Jing introduced to lower customer prices is Amazon's culture, but also a company where a DNA. AWS has made 42 price cuts over the past eight years, all of which Amazon did itself without external pressure.

Amazon cloud computing strategy in the Chinese local market

Amazon also attaches great importance to China's cloud computing market. In December last year, Amazon formally put AWS to China and launched a preview of China in early 2014. After entering China, Amazon will adopt the former shop (Beijing) plus factory (Ningxia Zhongwei) model, jointly with local partners to build, develop and promote cloud services and provide public cloud services to clients located in various parts of China.

Compared to other cloud computing providers, Amazon's operating experience is the most abundant. Doing cloud computing is the service, how to operate a good cloud platform is very difficult, and Amazon insisted on doing for 8 years. In these eight years, Amazon's experience is no way to compress, and other providers can not learn so much experience in the short term.

Guo Bei Jing said that in China, Amazon will also build a localized operation and technical support team, and will also have a dedicated sales service and team of partners for the Chinese market, Chinese customers can have a faster response capability. In Europe and the United States, Amazon has many independent software developer partners or consulting partners, these partners in the AWS platform to carry out value-added services. AWS into the Chinese market also attaches great importance to cooperation with Chinese local partners, hoping to establish China's partner ecosystem.

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