Category: Amazon Web Services

Top Reasons To Choose Amazon Web Services To Grow Your Business

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With an ultimate record of $2.53bn in Q2 in 2018, Amazon Web Services (AWS) doesn’t stop to amaze people and businesses. Despite the recent growth of Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, AWS still commands nearly 40 percent of the cloud computing market share.

The dominance of AWS in the IT industry as well as in growing demand for profitable cloud computing services has remained enormous from the very first day.

For the first-timers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that is not only comprehensive but also very much scalable and flexible to the world by the leading e-commerce giant, Amazon. AWS offers a blend of Infrastructure as a Service (laaS), packaged software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings.

In 2006, the official launch year of AWS, Amazon.com has build AWS from the internal infrastructure in order to handle its online retail operations.

Amazon Web Services can be simply described as a highly demanding cloud computing platform offering a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services that help organizations to move faster, lower their IT costs, and scale applications.

 In addition to providing greater speed, agility, scalability, security, availability, reliability, and flexibility, AWS enables you to save on the total cost of ownership of your IT infrastructure. Join us to learn about the tools and best practices that many customers use to optimize their AWS environment and reduce costs. Some of these include Amazon EC2 right-sizing, scheduling Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, storage optimization, reserved instances, tagging, and cost visualization.

Peter Shi, Commercial Architect, Amazon Web Services

(Source: aws.amazon.com)

So, now you might think how AWS will help you in your business growth? Over a year, more than a million customers are using and AWS is offering more than 70 wide-ranging services to meet nearly every business needs. Let’s have a look at the top reasons to choose AWS for your business.

Benefits of Using Amazon Web Service for Business

1. Global Presence:

Amazon has targeted the entire global audience. AWS has grown to be a worldwide leader in cloud computing. Now it’s operating in 44 zones and 16 geographic regions around the world. Thus it enables you to deploy your web application in multiple regions and helps to lower the latency with a better web experience for your targeted audience at a minimal cost.

2. Pay-As-You-Go Pricing:

AWS is a server-based service and flexible cloud-computing platform which allow users to automate routine tasks and quickly scale capacity up or down as needed. The most important point is Amazon is extremely flexible and offers pay-as-you-go approach with the flexible pricing structure.

Thus business owner can stop and start the instances as needed for the growth of the business bottom line. AWS easily adjust the server storage and infrastructure during the slow time. Small and mid-level organizations can also influence its services as you have to pay for only the resources consumed with pay per hour facility.

3. Security:

Since data storage and data security are significantly important to businesses, when switching to a cloud provider or service storage provider, it makes sense that security would be a highly sought-after feature.

AWS’s security is robust enough to tackle every possible challenge coming upfront whether you are the one-man startup or an enterprise-level AWS provides the same level of world-class security.

The data center maintains a high level of security resources like IAM (Identity and Access Management) which manage dozens of infrastructure compliance to keep secure the real-time instances on suspicious activity.

4. Scalability:

AWS is very much fit and healthy for all size of businesses. Because of its flexibility system, AWS has become the most demandable cloud computing infrastructure.

All the services communicate with your application automatically and handle the situations accordingly. With powerful API it manages the server instances in quick time and shut down the instances when they are no longer needed. Businesses will get more traffic in the first phase.

Amazon Web Services will also start supporting your business and in return, offer you flexibility, scalable e-commerce and storage solutions.

5. Customizable:

Amazon Web Services will allow you to choose the programming language, database, operating system, and other assets as per your knowledge and choice. This is to aid you in creating a solution that works not just best but outstanding for your team.

This platform allows a high level of customizations to meet the business requirement like cost tracking, organization security, and automation.

6. Free Tier:

Most of the IT professionals are little bit worry about the use of EC2 because if its cost factor. They have very less knowledge on AWS because EC2 is not like the traditional hosting solutions and it has designed to bring the server online and offline quickly as needed.

The free tier provides credit to run an EC2 micro instance. It comes with S3 storage, EC2 compute hours, Elastic Load Balancer time, and much more. This gives developers a chance to try out AWS’s API in their software, which not only enhances their software but also ties them to AWS, which benefits Amazon in the long run.

Andolasoft has the excellence on AWS is remarkable throughout and can assure growth in online sales through exclusive Amazon Web Services.

How Andolasoft Plans for Your Business Success with Premium AWS?  

Andolasoft the web and mobile application Development Company USA is well-known in providing comprehensive AWS Management Services. We have a team of experienced and highly knowledge-holders to work on the collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform powered by Amazon.

Andolasoft is the consulting partner of Amazon Web Services and expertise in IT infrastructure management services like Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Simple Storage Service (S3), Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, Route53, CloudWatch, Elastic MapReduce (EMR) and ElastiCache.

We have helped to reduce the It infrastructure cost of our customer PRIMP.

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Let’s have a look at how we are helping others in managing their business,

  • We are the recognized AWS Managed Services Provider.
  • Reduced Risk using experienced consultants.
  • We have an experienced and skilled team of AWS experts.
  • Deployment and Operations mentoring.
  • Years of experience in support and maintenance to demanding enterprise customers.
  • Focus on where we provide the most value.
  • We are having expertise in application migration.
  • Effective post-implementation support.
  • Our cloud services are available to create cross-over solutions that combine AWS with private clouds, dedicated servers, and collected equipment.

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Conclusion:

Amazon Web Services is one of the best cloud computing services for IT infrastructure management. As your business grows you may need big data application for the smooth operation of the business and AWS helps the quick scale of any big data and you can access many resources according to your requirements.

How do I check if a file exists in AWS S3 bucket using Rails3

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Introduction

Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. While uploading a file to S3 we need to check whether the file exists to avoid any data duplication.

Steps to check the presence of a file

Step#1

Add the below in your gem file,

[sourcecode]gem ‘aws-s3′[/sourcecode]

Then run the bundle,

[sourcecode]bundle install[/sourcecode]

Step#2

Modify your model as,

[sourcecode]require ‘aws/s3’

def  is_file_exist?
AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!( :access_key_id => ‘S3_KEY’, :secret_access_key => ‘S3_SECRET’)
return AWS::S3::S3Object.exists? attachment_id, “<YOUR_BUCKET_NAME>”
end[/sourcecode]

It is preferred to have the s3 credentials on the config folder and use it from the config file.

Step#3

Now modify your controller where you want to check the existence of the file,

[sourcecode]current_user.is_file_exist? #return true if exists[/sourcecode]

Easy method to avoid data redundancy in secured AWS S3.

Read Also: How to use Amazon S3 Bucket with Paperclip to store images in Rails3

I hope you find this useful. If you want to develop application in rails or want to deploy app in AWS cloud, then Andolasoft is the ideal and cost savvy option for you.  Have something to add to this topic? Share it in the comments.

AWS-Elastic Beanstalk VS Custom Environment Solution

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AWS has a beautiful feature named Elastic Beanstalk to deploy application in AWS cloud with minimal knowledge on environment setup. Currently it supports Ruby, Java, Node.js, python and PHP applications. But the question is, “should we use Elastic Beanstalk for a low/ medium traffic application?”

Advantage:

  • The Elastic Beanstalk is a fully automatic feature for application deployment and versioning
  • AWS has pre-setup templates that can be used like LAMP stack, Ruby Stack
  • Helps to provide single management interface to monitor the activity of your environments like EC2, ELB and S3

Disadvantage:

  • Since this does not support micro instance the cost of for Small instance or higher configuration instance to AWS is redundant
  • There are some limitations to customize the ELB after deployment.
  • AWS scales up and down the resources based on metrics. It supports Elastic Beanstalk on a single metric.
  • AutoScaling cannot be configured with CPU parameters and Network traffic.

Finally, it can be said that Elastic beanstalk is the best fit for application environments that require very little customization with heavy traffic. As it doesn’t support Micro instances, so it is advisable to use customizable environments for low traffic applications.

How to use Amazon S3 Bucket with Paperclip to store images in Rails3

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“S3 Bucket” is Amazon Simple Storage Service – a “highly durable and available store” and can be used to reliably store graphical and other applications contents such as media files, static assets and user uploads. It allows you to off-load your entire storage infrastructure. This feature facilitates better scalability, reliability, and speed than just storing files on the file-system.

It is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services and provides storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP etc.)

Here is an example on how to use Amazon S3 with paperclip in Ruby on Rails applications.

Step#1

  • In rails 3.x

Install aws-s3 gem by adding in Gemfile

gem 'aws-s3'

And run

Run “bundle install”

Step#2

To get AWS S3 bucket ‘Access Key ID’ and ‘Secret Access Key’ go to the “http://aws.amazon.com/s3”

Create s3.yml file under config directory and enter your Amazon S3 credentials

development:
bucket: bucket-dev-name
access_key_id: xxxxx
secret_access_key: xxxxx
test:
bucket: bucket-test-name
access_key_id: xxxxx
secret_access_key: xxxxx
production:
bucket: bucket-prod-name
access_key_id: xxxxx
secret_access_key: xxxxx

Step#3

Open your model file that would hold the attachment and modify it as follows

###Paperclip
has_attached_file :photo,:styles =>{ :thumb => "100x100", :medium => "200x200", :large => "600x400" },:storage => :s3,
:s3_credentials => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/s3.yml",:path => ":attachment/:id/:style.:extension",:bucket => 'yourbucket'

Step#4

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How to cut down Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing?

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Amazon_S3_online_servicesAndolasoft is specialized in providing Cloud Computing services to its customers. Here we have a huge team of skilled personnel to provide monitoring and support services for 24×7 across the world.

As a technology partner with Amazon Web Services, we would like to share some features as well as some useful tips about controlling the AWS billing cost.

What is Cloud Computing?

Integrating computing resources with World Wide Web to provide remote IT Infrastructure facilities is Cloud Computing. It’s an option to replace traditional IT infrastructures with virtual networking for faster job processing and higher productivity at lower costs.

What is AWS?

Amazon is providing similar IT infrastructure services as a web service, popularly known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Currently it is providing services to millions of businesses in more than 190 countries.
Features that makes AWS unique in public cloud

  • Auto Scaling

Number of Amazon EC2 instances can be scaled dynamically or by user defined schedule to increase or decrease them automatically depending on the demand. You will receive notifications to initiate Auto Scaling actions, or when Auto Scaling completes an action. Auto scaling feature can be used via APIs or Command Line Tools with no additional fees.

  • Amazon Cloud Front and it’s Functionalities

Amazon Cloud Front is a web service to distribute contents to end users at high speed .Here you can store the original version of your files on one or more origin servers and configure them by using URL pattern matches to specify which origin has what contents. You can use distribution’s domain name in your web pages or application so when users request an object using this domain name, they are automatically routed to the nearest location to deliver your contents.

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Manage IAM users and their access- Identity and Access Management (IAM) offers greater security, flexibility, and control when using AWS. IAM enables you to create users in AWS and manage access to AWS services and resources for your users. It also enables you to grant access to users managed outside AWS. You can assign individual security credentials (access keys, password, Authentication devices) or request temporary security credentials to provide users access to AWS services.

Manage IAM roles and their permissions- You can create roles in IAM and manage permissions to grant specific operations to the entities.Manage access for federated users- You can enable identity federation to allow users to access the AWS Management Console, without creating an IAM user for each identity. It is done by requesting temporary security credentials. This temporary security credentials are comprised of short lived access keys and session tokens associated with them. Users can use the access keys the same way as before, but they also have to pass the token . They can further be restricted by specifying explicit permissions while creating them. Any number of temporary security credentials can be issued.

  • IAM provides the following access controls:

Fine-grained access control to your AWS resources: IAM enables you to add specific conditions to control how a user can use AWS, such as time of day, their IP address, by using SSL, or authenticating with a Multi-Factor Authenticationdevice.Identity federation between your enterprise and AWS services: IAM can be used to grant employees, and applications access to AWS Management Console and AWS service APIs, using existing identity systems.

Mobile and browser-based applications: Mobile and browser-based applications can also be enabled to access specific AWS resources using temporary security credentials for a configurable period of time.

Tips to cut down AWS Billing:

  • Use AWS reserved instance for long running projects and spot instances for short term projects.
  • Use AWS private IP for data transfer between instances.
  • Use AWS Rout53 DNS to reduce Elastic IP usages.
  • Use Linux based Instances.
  • AWS recently lunched Glacier which offers $0.01 per GB / month only. Use Glacier for data storage instead of S3 to reduce the price of S3.

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