Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments. Allcode is a registered Partner and has a team of certified AWS engineers
At the time of writing, AllCode recently entered AWS’ Think Big for Small Business Program, granting us better reach in the public sector. This article is meant to review what that means for our potential clients and how they can benefit from working with partners of the Think Big for Small Business Program.
While the Amazon Cloud at large is meant to be flexible in how it is applied, there are a number of services that are more directly tailored to specific industries. The financial industry for example has solutions set out to help them merge their usual operations with the benefits cloud technology can provide. It has provided many companies with the capability to adapt to new regulations and further optimize their existing services.While the Amazon Cloud at large is meant to be flexible in how it is applied, there are a number of services that are more directly tailored to specific industries. The financial industry for example has solutions set out to help them merge their usual operations with the benefits cloud technology can provide. It has provided many companies with the capability to adapt to new regulations and further optimize their existing services.
AWS might seem like a steep investment for smaller businesses that need a cloud solution. With fewer resources to expend, there’s much less breathing room for error and a greater need to optimize. Amazon does provide a myriad of ways to shave off additional costs while also making customers’ AWS environments more efficient.
Cloud infrastructure has much faster agility and responsiveness compared to more traditional IT solutions. As resources will be considerably more expendable, there will be a greater tolerance for failures. However, cloud infrastructure does require a strong combination of IT governance and organizational governance to ensure a cloud environment is both agile and safe. Finding that balance can be a significant challenge.
Understandably, AWS does require a high amount of specialized knowledge to work with. It is a highly technical platform and cloud computing is still a relatively new field of work and study. It is incredibly easy to make mistakes from both a business perspective and a technical perspective and could result in falling short of operational goals, superfluous designs, poor optimization, and vulnerabilities.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of guidelines that help users develop their environments in a way that’s reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective. It’s a complicated process, but there are several key objectives that developers can and should follow when constructing a project on the Amazon cloud. Having objectives to follow can help improve establishing those benchmarks.
Globally, various AWS partnered companies such as ourselves are lending their services to public sector organizations to overcome and circumnavigate a variety of technical challenges with the cloud. Through the Public Sector Partnership Program, Amazon aims to boost their partners’ visibility to government entities and improve engagement overall. Both partner and public sector organizations alike can hope to benefit through this program through improved marketing materials and streamline operations respectively.
Building on the Amazon cloud can be complicated as it does require an extensive amount of knowledge beforehand on how to work with many of the services. AWS IQ is a marketplace where experts can sell their expertise and users can put out requests for specific cloud needs. Along with putting out a task, parties can then discuss terms of payment, scope of the project, scheduling, and project requirements.
Amazon continues to innovate with internet retail and how the customer’s experience is enhanced digitally. AWS continues to lead in fostering innovation and support of enterprises and retailers through the use of microservices, an API-first mentality, and cloud-native infrastructure. This has helped lay the groundwork for more sustainable online storefronts and provided customers with better services.
The most important components of a service are the service itself and the sources of its data, but those parts are completely worthless if they are separate and without the necessary connective tissue between them. AWS Glue is a serverless data pipeline that assists in finding data sources, preparing those sources, and directing data accordingly to where it’s needed. It’s easy to use and supports multiple processing and workload types.