{"id":10439,"date":"2014-03-24T16:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/mar\/24\/managed-aws-isnt-just-about-managing-aws\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:57:40","slug":"why-managed-aws-isnt-just-about-managing-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-managed-aws-isnt-just-about-managing-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Why managed AWS isn&#8217;t just about managing AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) is like an F-16 Fighting Falcon.&nbsp; In the right hands it can be nimble, graceful, and extremely powerful.&nbsp; Not to mention that it often destroys other cloud platforms in a dogfight&hellip;&nbsp; However, an important part of the analogy is the understanding that the AWS fighter plane comes in a thousand pieces with &ldquo;some assembly required.&rdquo;<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Managed AWS services<\/strong> attempt to take care of some of this assembly for you.&nbsp; Most AWS management partners and platforms will cover the basic features and customize them for your architecture.&nbsp; For example, if you&rsquo;re moving from an in-house datacenter to the cloud, an <strong>AWS management<\/strong> <strong>service<\/strong> will take the configuration of your infrastructure and translate that into AWS features and services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hardware like CPU and RAM become services like Elastic Compute (EC2).&nbsp; Switch and router configurations become networking services like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).&nbsp; Load-balancers become elastic (ELB).&nbsp; Storage &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) is like an F-16 Fighting Falcon.&nbsp; In the right hands it can be nimble, graceful, and extremely powerful.&nbsp; Not to mention that it often destroys other cloud platforms in a dogfight&hellip;&nbsp; However, an important &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}