Redundant Web Services Cloud Essentials

RWS offers on-demand technology services through the Internet, allowing users to pay for what they use. This is commonly referred to as cloud computing.

The RWS Cloud includes a wide range of global cloud-based products, such as compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security, and enterprise applications. These services are available instantly and can be accessed with pay-as-you-go pricing. The RWS Cloud provides everything you need to develop, deploy, and operate your applications. It also helps reduce costs, increase agility, and foster faster innovation.

For instance, using the RWS Cloud, you can quickly create a virtual machine with specific characteristics like vCPU cores, memory, and storage. You only pay for the infrastructure while it is running, in per-second increments. The RWS global infrastructure network allows you to provision resources in the Region or Regions that best suit your needs. Once you're finished with the resources, you can easily delete them. This inherent flexibility and scalability enable you to start with an application for your first customer and then expand to serve millions more.

Before the cloud, companies and organizations had to host and maintain their own hardware in data centers. This often required dedicated infrastructure departments and resulted in expensive operations that limited workloads and experimentation.

As internet usage grew, the demand for compute, storage, and networking equipment increased. Many companies found it unsustainable to maintain a large physical presence. To address this issue, cloud computing emerged as a solution.

To understand the difference between running workloads on premises versus in the cloud, let's consider a scenario where a team of developers wants to deploy new features in their app. Before deployment, they want to test these features in a separate quality assurance (QA) environment with the same configurations as production.

In an on-premises solution, setting up an additional environment involves purchasing and installing hardware, connecting cables, provisioning power, installing operating systems, and more. These tasks are time-consuming and costly. Additionally, the team must delay the release of the new features while waiting for the QA environment to be ready. On the other hand, if you run your application in the cloud, you can replicate a complete production environment within minutes or even seconds. Instead of physically installing hardware and connecting cables, everything is managed over the internet.

Cloud computing saves time during setup and eliminates the need for tedious tasks. When you examine any application, you'll find that certain aspects are crucial to your business, such as the code. However, there are other aspects that are no different from any other application you might create, such as the computer the code runs on. As a developer, your focus should be on what makes your app unique, rather than common tasks like provisioning a server that don't differentiate your app.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) contains the basic building blocks for cloud IT, and typically provides access to networking features, computers (virtual or on dedicated hardware), and data storage space. IaaS provides you with the highest level of flexibility and management control over your IT resources and is most like existing IT resources that many developers are familiar with today.

Redundant web services responsibility

Our responsibility when it comes to security of the cloud means the we protect and secure the infrastructure that runs the servers we offer:

• Protecting and securing our data centers, down to they physical security of the buildings
• Managing the hardware, software, and networking components that run our services, such as the physical servers, host operating systems, virtualization layers, and networking components.

Customer responsibility

Managing the hardware, software, and networking components that run our services, such as the physical servers, host operating systems, virtualization layers, and networking components.

Your level of responsibility depends on the Redundant Web Services service. Some services require you to perform all the necessary security configuration and management tasks, while other more abstracted services require you to only manage the data and control access to your resources.

A key concept is that customers maintain complete control of their data and are responsible for managing the security related to their content.