Amazon Web Services.- Basic Components

Basic Components you must Know about the AWS 

AWS is Market Leader in Cloud Services 

Amazon Currently has 11 regions which ideally is just a geographical area, Each region can have more then one Availability Zones also Known as AZ. 

you can find more information on the same here.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.RegionsAndAvailabilityZones.html 


Edge Locations are simply data centers to serve your content so the pages and data are rendered to the users more quickly 
this is also known as AWS CDN  (Content Delivery Network)

more explanation is provided here 

https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/18666/AWS-Regions-Availability-Zones-and-Edge-Locations-explained.html

how to learn Cloud?

There is quite a cloud buzz these days and while the application supporters like you and me fear the change to the cloud for loss of jobs we also need to adapt with the current changes, we still have time to unlearn what we knew and re-learn the state of art technologies.

In one of the meetings our mangers citied that the future is going to be a within these few technologies

1         Big Data
2.       Internet of things or IoT
3.       Mobility
4.       Digital
5.       Cloud

Being from an application (SharePoint Administrator) environment I could only relate myself to the cloud.

So I begin my self-learning and Job saving activity on getting myself trained on O365 and Azure using the Microsoft Virtual Academy Videos Link here

Being done that which took a really really long time, you need a real determination ( I guess job saving is a good reason enough) and real good patience once done with this is comfortably added to my resume that I have done self-paced learning in Office 365 and I know the cloud.

But do I really know the cloud?  its far more deeper and complex then I think.

While doing some readings online I found a few more very interesting things.

I am going to add the topics on my upcoming posts so what I know I can share hope it helps someone like me on a self-paced no guidance given journey to know and understand what a Cloud is and how can get absorbed into this new technology.

Why should the customer go for O365 – O365 advantage?

Why should the customer go for O365 – O365 advantage?

1.       Everything is in a cloud so no risk of loosing data as Microsoft backs up everything, the downtime if any is very minimal and always communicated.

2.       Leave the hosting, upgrading and patching worries, you will always get the latest version to work with without any hassles

3.       No VPN connection is required, O365 mails are available on internet across the globe

4.       They apps sync with smart phone on all OS’s Tablets and systems.

5.       New security policy helps you wipes your data remotely in case you have to

6.       MS office apps are available on Mobile devices and can be downloaded from app stores

7.       Buy o365 and you get an additional advantage of SharePoint sites, Lync and Sky drive for Business with 1 TB storage per user which is keeps a local copy of the data with help of the sync button for working offline.

8.       Work with monthly costs per users easier to add and remove if people have been onboarded or left the organization.

9.       People can get larger Mailbox storage upto 25 GB

10.   No more worries on MS office licensing; now everyone in the organization will work with the same version of office so no more compatibility issues.

11. New apps Sway and Delve makes Collaborating and working with files and peoples really easy.

SharePoint 2013 June 2014 Cumulative Updates

June 2014 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2013 has been released.

SharePoint Foundation -  KB2881063
http - //support.microsoft.com/kb/2881063

SharePoint Server 2013 - KB2881061
http - //support.microsoft.com/kb/2881061

Project Server 2013 - KB2881062
http - //support.microsoft.com/kb/2881062

Office Web Apps Server 2013 - KB2881051
http - //support.microsoft.com/kb/2881051

Office 2013 June 2014 Cumulative Updates - KB2970262
http - //support.microsoft.com/kb/2970262

SharePoint 2010 June 2014 Cumulative Updates

June 2014 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 has been released.

SharePoint Foundation - KB2880975
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880975

SharePoint Server 2010 - KB2880972
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880972

Project Server 2010 - KB2880974
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880974

Office 2010 June 2014 Cumulative Updates - KB2970263
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970263