Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud

AWS Introduction
Amazon.com is the largest online store and it was started by Jeff Bozos in 1995.AWS Cloud Services
was launched in 2006.AWS is a collection of various web services that together make up a cloud
computing platform.AWS used pay-as-you-use cloud computing services.

AWS Cloud Services

AWS offers different types of services:-
Compute Services
Storage Services
Databases Services
Networking & CDN Services
Application Services
Deployment & Management Services

AWS Features
High Availability by Availability Zones
Auto Scaling & Elasticity by CloudWatch
Parallel Processing by Elastic Load Balancer
Transparency by Elastic IP
Security by Encryption, IAM and HTTPs Access
Fault tolerance & Disaster Recovery by Replication,
Snapshots & VPC in Multi AZs & Regions
Low latency by Edge Locations & CDN
Inexpensive pricing by ” Pay-as-you-go” model
Some of free Use by AWS free Tier

Conclusion & Critical Evaluation

AWS suffers from many outages:
On April 20, 2011, EBS service became "stuck" and were unable to read/write requests.
On June 29, 2012, several websites were taken offline, storm in Northern Virginia.
On October 22, 2012, a major outage occurred.
1) AWS should ensure resolving these problems without outage happens.
2) AWS should focus on building tools that will make application plugging to the cloud easily.