Amazon Web Service: DevOps & the future

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the Cloud Service Provider that offer network services, infrastructure, business applications, development applications, Data Science and Big Data Solution in the cloud. According to Amazon, the number of active AWS users exceeds 1,000,000. Whether it is technology giants, television networks, banks, food manufacturers or governments, many different organizations are using AWS to develop, deploy and host their applications. The bigger tech giants are amongst the biggest users of AWS like Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn, BBC, ESPN etc. Some of the Companies like Netflix, Hertz, Intuit went all into AWS and pushing AWS to its limits.

Amazon defines DevOps: "DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes."

As the companies are growing more in the cloud they need more scaling and less human intervention on testing and deployment. Now the need of Automation is increasing day by day. With DevOps tools and methodology many company`s are able to minimize the human intervention and going more with the automation. Moreover the relation and communication between the Developers and the Operation team increases a lot with the DevOps practice. As such the DevOps methodologies are getting popular day by day. Like the DevOps methodologies the popularity of a DevOps Engineer is also rising and a skilled DevOps Engineer is a dire need for a company adapting in DevOps.

AWS DevOps provides application developer teams with the means to efficiently implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). This enables them to securely store and version application source code, while automatically building, testing, and eventually deploying the application to either on-premises environments or to AWS. There are three primary categories in cloud computing: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), AWS falls under the IaaS category—a scalable instant-computing infrastructure that the customer completely controls, including virtual servers and operating systems (OS).

AWS DevOps Best Practices:

To be able to successfully deploy application in AWS DevOps there are certain best practices

IAC : By deploying application using template and writing those template using scripting language such as Json and YAML. AWS has a service called CloudFormation which will automatically deploy application using those template created. This helps building the IAC platform in a suitable automated way.

CI/CD: CI and CD is the heart of DevOps practice. CI stands for Continuous integration which is the methodology to continuously build land test applications. There is a popular tools name “Jenkins” which has been used by most of the companies. After a successful integration the CD which is continuous deployment comes into play with several tools on the AWS pipeline like AWS Code deploy, AWS Code pipeline. There are also several tools for the containerized apps like docker and Kubernetes.

Security: Security is the vital aspect on an automated DevOps pipeline. AWS offers security with IAM and also several third party integration. With applications in AWS Cloud security headache for the DevOps professional and applications reduced by far.

Infrastructure as a Code now become the industry standard of the IT industry. AWS offers a tool name CloudFormation as we already mentioned which is used by a lot of companies. Nowadays Terraform becomes one of the prime Choices for the tech industry. So learning about Terraform and have hands on experience with Terraform will give someone a very good chance to be successful in this industry.

Enhance IT embraced AWS and DevOps technology and provides extensive hands-on training so that a Trainee become an individual with expertise on industry standard tools. The prime goal of Enhance IT is to make all the Trainees successful on their journey to these ever-expanding technologies. Enhance IT provides hands on lab and training on the AWS and DevOps tools so that someone with very minimal knowledge can become successful on his profession on this industry.

The future of Enhance IT for AWS as it already developed this technology is to cope with the changing nature of the technology and embrace the changes to make good effect on the different teams. Moreover, as time passes by with having solid practice of the AWS Technology the career opportunities on AWS with Enhance IT is growing exponentially.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone about the benefits of cloud native tools and the growth of the Cloud industry. Getting into AWS program is going to give someone a lifetime opportunity to build his career and make it successful for coming future.