Teamcenter X and Amazon Web Services provide a cloud-secure broad infrastructure (Summary)
Cloud technology is changing the product development process and how a business operates.
In our second podcast in the Teamcenter X industry solutions series, we join our host Chris Pennington, Global Industry Marketing Leader for Industrial Machinery at Siemens Digital Industries Software, and Joe Rosing, WW GTM Leader, Industrial Manufacturing at AWS.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes security a top priority, architected to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today.
The core infrastructure of AWS is built to satisfy the security requirements of the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. In addition, AWS uses the same secure hardware and software to build and operate each of the regions and service offerings to associate that it is supply-vetted and accepted as safe enough for top-secret information, benefitting all customers globally.
Malintent can find a server from anywhere, whether it’s in the cloud or not. So, AWS has a dedicated team of engineers and investigators who proactively build algorithms and mechanisms to detect and prevent service misuse. They respond quickly if customers or third parties bring suspected misuse to their attention.
Amazon Web Services is architected to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. The core infrastructure is built to satisfy the security requirements of the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. In addition, it uses the same secure hardware and software to build and operate regions, and service offerings and associated supply chains are vetted and accepted as secure enough for top secret, benefitting all our customers globally.
A person with malintent can find a server from anywhere, whether in the cloud or not. AWS has a dedicated team of engineers and investigators who build algorithms and mechanisms to proactively detect and proactively detect and prevent misuse of our services. And we also respond quickly if customers or third parties bring suspected misuse to our attention.
In small and medium-sized businesses, AWS scale allows significantly more investment in security policing and countermeasures than most large companies could afford. So, for example, CIOs worry about that rogue server under a developer’s desk running something destructive. However, with AWS, CIOs can use tools like AWS Config and resource tagging to see precisely what cloud assets their company is using at any moment.
So many companies are invested in UPS devices to provide resilience for their on-premises solutions. AWS is responsible for the resiliency of the cloud, which means the resiliency of the infrastructure that runs all the services offered in the AWS cloud. This infrastructure comprises the hardware, software, networking, and facilities that run AWS cloud services. The AWS Global cloud infrastructure is designed to enable customers to build highly resilient workload architectures.
So, each AWS region is fully isolated and consists of multiple availability zones. Availability zones isolate faults that could impact workload resilience, preventing them from affecting other zones in the region. But at the same time, all zones in an AWS region are interconnected with high bandwidth, low latency networking over fully redundant dedicated fiber, providing high throughput, low latency networking between those availability zones, and all traffic between zones is also encrypted. The network performance is sufficient.
When an application is partitioned across multiple availability zones, companies are better isolated and protected from power outages, lightning strikes, tornadoes, hurricanes and more. A pillar of AWS’ reliability is the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when expected.
A few design principles include automatically recovering from failure, scaling horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability, and stopping guessing at capacity, especially for small and mid-sized businesses. This last principle addresses a common cause of failure and on-premises workloads: resource saturation when the demands placed on a workload exceed the capacity of that workload in the cloud. You can then monitor demand and workload utilization and automate the addition or removal of resources to maintain that optimal level to satisfy demand without under-provisioning.
Why companies are moving to the cloud:
- Firstly, AWS lets customers quickly spin up resources as they need them. As a result, manufacturers can quickly develop and roll out new applications, and teams can experiment and innovate more rapidly and frequently. If an experiment fails, you can always de-provision those resources without risk.
- Secondly, AWS allows customers to trade capital expense for variable expense and only pay for it as they consume it. The variable expense is much lower than what small and mid-size businesses can typically do for themselves. Because of our economies of scale, this is primarily aligned with manufacturers – moving fixed costs to variable costs is vital to keeping the operating model flexible relative to demand.
- Thirdly, customers are used to overprovision of IT infrastructure to ensure they had enough capacity to handle their business operations at that peak activity level. But with AWS, they can provide what they need, knowing that they can instantly scale up or down along with the needs of their business.
- Fourthly, the cloud allows manufacturers to innovate faster because they can focus their highly valuable resources on developing and executing applications or use cases that are operational improvement in differentiation for their customers and not spend so much time on undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing the IT infrastructure and the data centers for on-premise systems.
- Lastly, AWS enables manufacturers to deploy globally in minutes. As mentioned earlier, with the AWS Cloud Infrastructure, AWS is the concept of a region that is a physical location around the world where we cluster data centers. We call each group of logical data centers and availability zone well. AWS now spans 96 availability zones within 30 geographic regions worldwide, and we’ve announced plans for 15 more availability zones and five more AWS regions.
As a result, when small to mid-sized businesses either need to scale deployment or grow that global footprint, they can do this very quickly on AWS.
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