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Amazon Web Services (AWS) – An Overview of the On-Demand Cloud Computing Platform

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Cloud computing is increasingly becoming a norm in the global industrial landscape with web services using it as a critical backbone service provider including significant video streaming services. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of some of the Amazon Web Service (AWS) tools and features. The paper also discusses how AWS contributes to a range of industries making them dependent on AWS’s agility, scalability and deliverability of services. Implementation using information available on AWS leading portals as well as the practical experiments involving the discussed features are given. As more and more industries become dependent on Big data and AI, one can state that AWS will play a key role in the future developments across myriads of industries.

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  1. Freelance Consultant, London, England, UK

    Sadegh Hashemipour

  2. Epoka University, Rruga Tiranë-Rinas, Km 12, 1032, Vorë, Tiranë, Albania

    Maaruf Ali

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  1. CFRED, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Mahdi H. Miraz

  2. Professor Emeritus, Wrexham Glyndwr University, Bradford, UK

    Peter S. Excell

  3. Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, UK

    Andrew Ware

  4. AMA International University, Salmabad, Bahrain

    Safeeullah Soomro

  5. Epoka University, Tirana, Albania

    Maaruf Ali

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Hashemipour, S., Ali, M. (2020). Amazon Web Services (AWS) – An Overview of the On-Demand Cloud Computing Platform. In: Miraz, M.H., Excell, P.S., Ware, A., Soomro, S., Ali, M. (eds) Emerging Technologies in Computing. iCETiC 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60036-5_3

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