Amazon Web Services

Understanding Cloud Computing

Iason Prassides

Content Developer, DataCamp

AWS and the market

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  • AWS launched in 2006 (Google Cloud in 2008, Microsoft Azure in 2010)
  • Breadth of services:
    • Computing
    • Storage
    • Analytics
    • Security and enterprise applications
    • Machine learning
  • Market share: 31%
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AWS professional cloud services

 

AWS cloud services - S3 only

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AWS professional cloud services

 

AWS cloud services - S3 and EC2

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AWS professional cloud services

 

All three AWS cloud services

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AWS professional data services

  • Redshift (analytics - data warehousing)

 

 

 

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AWS professional data services

  • Redshift (analytics - data warehousing)
  • Kinesis (real time data movement and analytics)

 

 

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AWS professional data services

  • Redshift (analytics - data warehousing)
  • Kinesis (real time data movement and analytics)
  • SageMaker (predictive analytics and machine learning)

 

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AWS customers

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AWS case study

Company: NerdWallet

Problem: Takes too long to deploy machine learning models

Solution:

  • Amazon Sagemaker (cloud machine learning platform gathering machine learning processes)

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AWS case study

Improvements:

  • Reduce training times to days
  • Reduce training costs by 75%
  • Modernized data science engineering practices

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