Overtime DevOps has become an increasingly popular concept for organizations looking to achieve agility, scalability, and reliability. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an environment for organizations to implement DevOps practices, allowing teams to take advantage of the cloud to develop and deploy applications rapidly.
This blog will explain and discuss AWS DevOps and its pros and cons. Let’s get started!
What Is DevOps?
In case you’re new to the world of DevOps. Let’s begin by understanding what DevOps means and what it’s used for.
DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and operations (Ops). The term describes the practice of software development, operations, and quality assurance teams working together to build, ship, and run software applications.
DevOps aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. This is done by combining processes, tools, and culture to increase an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity.
Implementing DevOps has helped countless organizations to test and release high-quality software more rapidly and reliably
What Is AWS?
AWS, also known as Amazon Web Services, is Amazon’s cloud provider. The cloud computing platform provides a suite of cloud services, including computing power, storage, databases, analytics, and machine learning.
AWS enables developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications quickly and cost-effectively. It also provides users with access to a wide range of services, such as:
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and more.
So.. What Is AWS DevOps?
Now comes the main question at hand, what is AWS DevOps?
AWS DevOps is a comprehensive set of services that enable organizations to develop, deploy, and manage their applications in an automated and secure manner. These sets of services and tools enable teams to quickly and easily develop, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud.
Simply put, AWS DevOps is Amazon’s solution to implement DevOps using its cloud platform and a suite of dedicated tools and services.
The suite of AWS DevOps services provides you with everything from source control to continuous integration, deployment, application performance management, and security.
- Source control allows teams to track changes to their codebase and manage the development process.
- Continuous integration and deployment allow teams to test and deploy their applications rapidly and reliably.
- Application performance management helps teams monitor and diagnose any application issues.
- Security helps teams protect their applications and services from malicious attacks.
All of the above combined allows teams to get their applications up and running quickly and efficiently and to take advantage of the cloud’s agility, scalability, and reliability.
By utilizing AWS DevOps, you can better understand how your applications and services interact with each other and the underlying infrastructure. This allows you to make changes quickly and easily without the need for manual intervention or manual configuration of resources.
AWS DevOps – Pros & Cons
By now, you should understand the general concept of AWS DevOps and what it exactly is. Let’s move on and go over the pros and cons of using AWS DevOps and help you decide whether AWS DevOps is the right choice for your project.
Pros of AWS DevOps
1. Increased Productivity
By using AWS DevOps, your enterprise can benefit from increased productivity. Automating many of the manual tasks associated with operations reduces the need for manual labor. It allows teams to focus on more value-add activities.
DevOps also improves the ability to scale applications as needed and allows for rapid deployment of services and applications.
2. Cost Effective
AWS DevOps is a cost-effective solution for organizations looking to save on operational costs. By automating many of the manual tasks, organizations can reduce labor costs.
Additionally, with the elasticity of AWS, organizations can quickly scale operations up and down to ensure efficient use of resources and cost savings.
3. High Availability
AWS DevOps is designed to provide high availability and reliability. Its ability to scale quickly and utilize multiple availability zones helps to ensure that applications and services are available and running smoothly even when there is an unexpected spike in demand.
4. Security
AWS provides a range of security features, such as identity and access management, encryption, and access auditing, that make it a secure solution for organizations of all sizes.
AWS DevOps can also help organizations ensure their applications and services remain compliant with industry and government standards and other security requirements.
Cons of AWS DevOps
1. Learning Curve
AWS DevOps is a complex technology, and there is a learning curve associated with it. Organizations that are new to AWS DevOps may need to invest in training and resources to ensure the success of their implementation.
2. Expense
While AWS DevOps can provide cost savings, there are still costs associated with the solution. The cost of the platform, training and other resources should be considered when evaluating the total cost of ownership of the solution.
3. Limited Support
AWS DevOps is not a turn-key solution. Organizations new to AWS may need to invest in resources for support and troubleshooting. Additionally, some organizations may rely on third-party solutions for particular services or tasks.
Note: Most of the cons of using AWS DevOps can be avoided by hiring professional developers with the necessary experience and expertise. For instance, you can avoid the time, cost of training, and limited support by hiring professional AWS DevOps engineers.
Takeaway – Should You Use AWS DevOps?
AWS DevOps is definitely worth using, especially if you’re using staff augmentation services or offshoring professional AWS-certified DevOps Engineers.
The suite of tools and services provided by AWS DevOps can help your organization build and deploy applications quickly and cost-effectively. With AWS DevOps, your organization can have automated processes, improved communication and collaboration, and quickly deploy and scale applications. These will increase your organization’s efficiency and productivity and reduce costs.
Consider hiring HeavyTask’s AWS-certified DevOps Engineers to avoid high training costs, lack of support and troubleshooting, etc. Our remote AWS DevOps Engineers can work around the clock and provide quality results within strict deadlines.
In conclusion, I would urge all startups or established organizations to do the due diligence to ensure the agency that will be doing the development has the knowledge, skillsets, and expertise to get the project completed on time without sacrificing code quality. I often come across projects that are halfway done, using outdated tech stack where the client has spent a significant amount of resources to be in a position where the project can’t be finished.
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Ayaan Manzur
Marketing Analyst / Writer @ HeavyTask
