Auto Scaling Overview Monitors the workload of instances and can add or remove capacity as needed Scaling Up = adding capacity Scaling Down = reducing capacity Allows better cost management Many AWS resources are scalable Scalable AWS Resources EC2 auto-scaling groups Aurora DB cluster DynamoDB global secondary indexes DynamoDB tables Read more…
Identity & Access Management (AIM) AIM is all about managing access to AWS It doesn’t support OS, services, or application access management It is what people can do within AWS E.g. launch instance etc. It supports users, groups, and roles (app-users) It’s free, however AWS services implemented by the users Read more…
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview A service that allows you to run virtual machines (AMIs) in the could Pay as you go (on-demand) default model Integrates with storage, networking, and security Enables fast turnaround/ time to market No hardware racking & stacking needed While the legacy model takes weeks to Read more…
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) A virtual network dedicated to your AWS account The term “virtual” = “not really” It is logically isolated from other virtual networks in the AWS Cloud A personal data center in the could VPN connections can be made to the VPC You can launch your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, into your VPC You Read more…
Selecting the Storage Service Service Description Simple Storage Service (S3) First service offered by Amazon; Object-level storage; Distributed across three (3) Availability Zones (AZs) by default. Glacier Archiving data storage; meant for infrequent access; The cheapest storage option in AWS. CloudFront Getting data closer to the user; caching data at Read more…
AWS Overview The Cloud Internet-based solution Cloud operates on physical servers There’s limited knowledge of hardware location and their capabilities Clouds may be limited to a single organization (enterprise clouds), or be available to many organizations (public cloud) Cloud Computing On-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without Read more…
What is AWS? Amazon Web Services A worldwide distributed system A secure public cloud services platform, offering compute power, database/ storage, content delivery, networking, application deployment and other services to help businesses scale and grow Why AWS? AWS is the market leader ~58% of total market share AWS is the Read more…