Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s largest and most widely adopted cloud computing platform.
It provides on-demand computing, storage, networking, and machine-learning infrastructure that powers more than a million organisations — from startups to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.

DevOps, on the other hand, is the practice of integrating development and operations teams through automation, continuous integration, and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
AWS and DevOps together represent the foundation of modern software delivery — enabling agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency at every level.

What We Teach at Oliya.tech

At Oliya Academy, AWS is taught not as a theory subject but as a living infrastructure that every student actively uses.
All live projects, from web apps to mobile APIs, are deployed on AWS so learners gain real, hands-on experience configuring servers, networks, and pipelines.

Students learn:

• Compute Services: Creating and managing virtual machines with EC2/dockers, scaling environments, and setting up secure key pairs.

• Storage Services: Hosting media files and static content on S3, connecting to CDN layers via CloudFront, and using Route 53 for domain management.

• Databases: Configuring RDS (PostgreSQL) for persistent storage, backups, and multi-region replication.

• Security & Identity: Managing permissions through IAM roles and policies.

• Monitoring & Logging: Using CloudWatch to track uptime, metrics, and events.

• Automation & CI/CD: Creating deployment pipelines with CodePipeline and CodeBuild, combined with GitHub Actions and Docker.

• Serverless Concepts: Introduction to AWS Lambda for lightweight automation tasks.

• Cost Governance: Understanding billing, budgets, and optimisation strategies for cloud usage.

By the end of training, students deploy, test, monitor, and maintain their applications entirely on AWS, replicating real-world cloud environments.

Industry Examples

Each example below is drawn from official AWS case studies, engineering blogs, and public documentation — all verified, factual sources showing how AWS powers global organisations.

1. Netflix
Netflix’s entire streaming infrastructure is hosted on AWS.
The company uses EC2 for compute, S3 for object storage, and CloudFront as its global content delivery network.
Netflix collaborates directly with AWS engineering teams to optimise cloud performance, a partnership showcased in multiple AWS re:Invent keynotes.

2. Airbnb
Airbnb relies on AWS to manage its scalable microservices architecture.
It uses RDS, S3, and EC2 to process millions of bookings and images daily.
Airbnb engineers highlight AWS elasticity as key to handling unpredictable user traffic worldwide.

3. Slack
Slack’s messaging platform runs on AWS infrastructure.
The company uses EC2, S3, and RDS to ensure low-latency, high-availability messaging for millions of users across global regions.

4. Zoom
Zoom leverages AWS for video encoding, content distribution, and user data storage.
AWS’s scalability allows Zoom to host hundreds of thousands of simultaneous video sessions without downtime.

5. Spotify
Spotify migrated significant workloads to AWS, using services like DynamoDB, S3, and EMR for analytics.
The migration enabled faster experimentation in machine learning and data science.

6. Pfizer
Pfizer’s pharmaceutical data-processing and clinical analytics pipelines operate on AWS, conforming to FDA and GxP compliance frameworks.
AWS’s secure infrastructure supports Pfizer’s R&D collaboration with global research centres.

7. NASA
NASA’s Earthdata and satellite imagery repositories are hosted on AWS S3 as part of the AWS Public Dataset Program.
Researchers and developers can access terabytes of open Earth science data directly from the cloud.

8. Siemens
Siemens uses AWS IoT and analytics services to monitor and manage digital twins of industrial equipment.
Their collaboration with AWS enables predictive maintenance for global manufacturing lines.

9. Expedia Group
Expedia utilises AWS for real-time travel pricing, fraud detection, and recommendation systems.
It employs Kinesis for data streaming and Lambda for event-driven processing.

10. U.S. Government / AWS GovCloud
AWS GovCloud provides compliant infrastructure for multiple U.S. government departments, including the Department of Defense and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under strict regulatory frameworks such as FedRAMP and ITAR.

Summary

Across these ten confirmed examples, AWS stands as the backbone of global digital transformation:

1. Media and Streaming: Netflix, Spotify, Zoom.

2. Travel and Hospitality: Airbnb, Expedia.

3. Enterprise and Collaboration: Slack, Siemens.

4. Healthcare and Pharma: Pfizer, Government research initiatives.

5. Science and Public Data: NASA, AWS Open Data Program.

AWS is not a vendor-specific niche; it is the global standard.
By learning to deploy real applications on AWS, Oliya students gain the same skills that power the most innovative organisations on Earth.

Career Paths

• Cloud Engineer – Manage compute, storage, and networking on AWS.

• DevOps Engineer – Automate deployments with CI/CD pipelines.

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Monitor systems for performance and availability.

• Infrastructure Engineer – Design secure and scalable cloud environments.

• Solutions Architect (AWS Certified) – Build cloud solutions for clients and enterprises.

• Data Engineer – Manage pipelines using AWS storage and analytics services.