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Cloud Concepts
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Amazon Web Services — Moving from on premises to the cloud with AWS delivers significant cost savings, report finds | AWS Insights
by moving to AWS, Snap gained access to data centers around the world, allowing its users to more seamlessly communicate with reduced lag
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Amazon Web Services — AWS Cloud Adoption Framework overview - Public Sector Cloud Transformation
the Envision phase helps you create a foundation for your cloud strategy that returns ongoing measurable value to your organization, connecting your business goals and
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Amazon Web Services — What is Cloud Computing? - Cloud Computing Services, Benefits, and Types - AWS
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
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Amazon Web Services — Definitions - AWS Well-Architected Framework
The reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to.
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Amazon Web Services — Elasticity - AWS Well-Architected Framework
Some services do this as part of their service: Amazon S3 , Amazon SQS , Amazon SNS , Amazon SES , Amazon Aurora , etc.
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Amazon Web Services — Global Infrastructure Regions & AZs
you can easily run highly-demanding applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to your end-users such as media & entertainment content creation, real-time gaming
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Amazon Web Services — Learn Cloud Economics - Value of Cloud - Cloud ROI Framework - AWS
The Cloud Value Framework helps customers understand the business value of moving to and building on AWS.
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Amazon Web Services — Points of presence - AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries
Each PoP is isolated from the others, which means a failure affecting a single PoP or metropolitan area does not impact the rest of the
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Amazon Web Services — AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations.
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Amazon Web Services — Availability Zones - AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries
Common points of failure, like generators and cooling equipment, are not shared across Availability Zones and are designed to be supplied by different power substations.
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Amazon Web Services — Business Value on AWS - Cloud Value Proposition | AWS Executive Insights
The average annual cost of downtime for Fortune 1000 companies is $1.25–$2.5 billion per year.