Overview of AWS : AR&VR,
Blockchain,
Business Applications,
Cloud Financial Management, Compute Services| AWS WhitePaper Summary
Tags: cloud, aws, blockchain, management
Published: 2021-10-30 20:24:09


## AR and VR

**Amazon Sumerian** lets you create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly and easily without requiring any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise. 
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## Blockchain

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**Amazon Managed Blockchain** is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks using the popular open source frameworks Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum.

AMB is a fully managed service that allows you to set up and manage a scalable blockchain network with just a few clicks. In addition, Managed Blockchain can replicate an immutable copy of your blockchain network activity into Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a fully managed ledger database. This allows you to easily analyze the network activity outside the network and gain insights into trends.
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## Business Applications
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**Alexa for Business** is a service that enables organizations and employees to use Alexa to get more work done. With Alexa for Business, employees can use Alexa as their intelligent assistant to be more productive in meeting rooms, at their desks, and even with the Alexa devices they already have at home.

**Amazon Chime** is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust. Amazon Chime works seamlessly across your devices so that you can stay connected. 

**Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)** is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service that enables developers to send mail from within any application. You can configure Amazon SES quickly to support several email use cases, including transactional, marketing, or mass email communications. 

**Amazon WorkDocs** is a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service with strong administrative controls and feedback capabilities that improve user productivity.
Users can comment on files, send them to others for feedback, and upload new versions without having to resort to emailing multiple versions of their files as attachments. 

**Amazon WorkMail** is a secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email client applications. Amazon WorkMail gives users the ability to seamlessly access their email, contacts, and calendars using the client application of their choice, including Microsoft Outlook, native iOS, and Android email applications
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## Cloud Financial Management
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**AWS Application Cost Profiler** provides you the ability to track the consumption of shared AWS resources used by software applications and report granular cost breakdown across tenant base. You can achieve economies of scale with the shared infrastructure model, while still maintaining a clear line of sight to detailed resource consumption information across multiple dimensions.

**AWS Cost Explorer** has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. 

**AWS Budgets** gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. 

**The AWS Cost & Usage Report** is a single location for accessing comprehensive information about your AWS costs and usage.

**Reserved Instance (RI) Reporting**, AWS provides a number of RI-specific cost management solutions out-of-the-box to help you better understand and manage your RIs.

**Savings Plans** is a flexible pricing model offering lower prices compared to On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a specific usage commitment (measured in $/hour) for a one or three-year period. AWS offers three types of Savings Plans – Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans, and Amazon SageMaker Savings Plans. 

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## Compute Services
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**Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)** is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances (called Amazon EC2 instances) to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. 

### ***Instance Types***
Amazon EC2 passes on to you the financial benefits of Amazon’s scale. You pay a very low rate for the compute capacity you actually consume. 

1. On-Demand Instances— With On-Demand instances, you pay for compute capacity by the hour or the second depending on which instances you run. No longer-term commitments or upfront payments are needed.

2. Spot Instances—Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices and let you take advantage of unused Amazon EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. 

3. Reserved Instances—Reserved Instances provide you with a significant discount (up to 72%) compared to On-Demand instance pricing. You have the flexibility to change families, operating system types, and tenancies while benefitting from Reserved Instance pricing when you use Convertible Reserved Instances.

4. Savings Plans—Savings Plans are a flexible pricing model that offer low prices on EC2 and Fargate usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term.

5. Dedicated Hosts—A Dedicated Host is a physical EC2 server dedicated for your use. Dedicated Hosts can help you reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses, including Windows Server, SQL Server, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (subject to your license terms), and can also help you meet compliance requirements.

**Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling** helps you maintain application availability and allows you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define. 

**EC2 Image Builder** simplifies the building, testing, and deployment of Virtual Machine and container images for use on AWS or on-premises.

**Amazon Lightsail** is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. Lightsail plans include everything you need to jumpstart your project – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP address – for a low, predictable price.

**AWS App Runner** is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs, at scale and with no prior infrastructure experience required. 

**AWS Batch** enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. 

**AWS Elastic Beanstalk** is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and Internet Information Services (IIS).

**AWS Fargate** is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.  Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them.

**AWS Lambda** lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume—there is no charge when your code is not running. 

**The AWS Serverless Application Repository** enables you to quickly deploy code samples, components, and complete applications for common use cases such as web and mobile back-ends, event and data processing, logging, monitoring, IoT, and more.

**AWS Outposts** bring native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. You can use the same APIs, the same tools, the same hardware, and the same functionality across on-premises and the cloud to deliver a truly consistent hybrid experience. 

***AWS Outposts come in two variants:*** 

1. VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts allows you to use the same VMware control plane and APIs you use to run your infrastructure

2. AWS native variant of AWS Outposts allows you to use the same exact APIs and control plane you use to run in the AWS cloud, but on-premises.

**AWS Wavelength** is an AWS Infrastructure offering optimized for mobile edge computing applications. Wavelength Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage services within communications service providers’ (CSP) data centers at the edge of the 5G network, so application traffic from 5G devices can reach application servers running in Wavelength Zones without leaving the telecommunications network. 

**VMware Cloud on AWS** is an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware delivering a highly scalable, secure, and innovative service that allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud running on next-generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal infrastructure.