6 min readSep 22, 2020

Companies that got benefitted from AWS‼️

What is cloud computing❓

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Who is using cloud computing❓

Organizations of every type, size, and industry are using the cloud for a wide variety of use cases, such as data backup, disaster recovery, email, virtual desktops, software development and testing, big data analytics, and customer-facing web applications. For example, healthcare companies are using the cloud to develop more personalized treatments for patients. Financial services companies are using the cloud to power real-time fraud detection and prevention. And video game makers are using the cloud to deliver online games to millions of players around the world.

Benefits of cloud computing💡

Agility
Elasticity
Cost savings
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Types of cloud computing☁️

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)

Companies using AWS cloud❗ #awscasestudies💡

1. Adobe Systems:

They have a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services and developed the superior product with them. Adobe adopted AWS Cloud because of the richest set of APIs and deep integration of all the automated softwares. They want to provide an efficient environment to their customers.

They used Adobe Creative Cloud with a wide variety of services that are equally helpful in enterprise and government sector. They deployed Adobe CQ cloud manager that fully manages all the services of cloud running on both Redhat and Windows. They used EBS System extensively with Elastic Beam and Cloud Formation.

Mitch Nelson (Director, Managed Services) at Adobe, while interviewing in AWS said that AWS did a great job in helping us do that, and if we have any problem ever, AWS is always there to sync in such situations. Using AWS Cloud, we achieved the multiple location support with the multi-terabyte operating environment for our customers.

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2. Coursera:

They just wanted to have efficient utilization of resources that are unused due to certain reasons. They used Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) to move easily to micro services-based architecture. They are using Amazon EMR, Redshift, Cassandra, Amazon RDS and many third party tool to set up their infrastructure on the cloud. Using ECS, each job is produced as a container and ESC schedule it across the instance cluster of EC2. Amazon ECS also helps them handling all the cluster management. Using AWS Cloud, they achieved the usability of resources, speed and agility in their processes , scalable capacity and operational efficiencies.

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3. Netflix:

In 2009, they moved to AWS cloud to incorporate the content delivery throughout the globe. They preferred AWS because they wanted to be more focused on updating, saving and managing instances over the cloud. To do that, they used the model of the dynamic AWS infrastructure of about tons of instances over many geographical areas. Before using AWS cloud, they were using assembly language or any protocol available for deploying content. Using AWS, they can handle the infrastructure programmatically. Netflix is using dozens of EC2 instances running across 3 AWS regions. There are hundreds of micro services running and serving 1 billion hours of content serving per month. They use Amazon S3 for chopping the video content into 5 seconds parts, package it, and then deploy to the content delivery networks. AWs helps them in achieving setting up a backup for disaster activity (here, Lambda helped them to copy and validate it). AWS cloud helps them in monitoring and creating alerts and trigger it to compensate the changes in situations. They quoted that AWS Lambda helped them to build a rule-based self managing infrastructure and replacing it with the current system.

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4. Slack:

The Slack founders faced failures in their previous startup ventures. So, they worked with that experience to develop slack. They just needed an extra layer of expertise to run the infrastructure. The prior company named Tiny Speck, used AWS in 2009, which became ‘Slack Tech’. That time, this was the only viable offering for the public cloud. Now, Slack has very simple IT architecture that is based on AWS services. They are using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for file uploads and sharing static assets, Elastic Load Balancer to balance the load across servers. To protect the network on cloud and firewall rules with security groups, they are using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). For the protection of user credentials and accounts, they are utilizing Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control user credentials. Along with these services, they are using Redis data structure server, Apache Solr search tool, the Squid caching proxy, and a MySQL database.

To make it easier for AWS customers to manage their environment, they recently launched a collection of Slack Integration Blueprints for AWS Lambda. Amazon Web Services helps them achieving their goal with ease. Hosting Slack in AWS made their customers more confident that Slack is safe, secure, and always-on.

5. NASA:

NASA case study 2017

Through its use of AWS, with support from InfoZen, NASA is making its vast wealth of pictures, videos, and audio files—previously in some 60 “collections” across NASA’s 10 centers—easily discoverable in one centralized location.