Yearly Archives: 2018

EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud Compute capacity in the cloud Allows you to quickly scale capacity up and down Virtual Machines in the cloud Pay only for capacity you actually use NOTE: Root volumes by default are deleted when terminated! …

ElastiCache improves performance of web applications by allowing you to retrieve info from fast, managed, in-memory system. Amazon ElastiCache works as an in-memory data store and cache to support the most demanding applications requiring sub-millisecond response times. By utilizing an…

IAM = Identity Access Management Securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users Create and manage users / groups No region IAM is available throughout the world Access key or Secret access key can only be used…

VPC - Virtual Private Cloud One subnet = one Availability Zone Hourly rate is free to use VPC but pay for VPN, NAT Gateway Use a NAT Gateway or NAT instance to allow outbound traffic for a private subnet, but…

CDN = Content Delivery Network - a system of distributed servers that deliver web pages and other web content to a user based on the geo location of the user. You can clear cached objects but you are charged for…

S3 - Simple Storage Service Object based storage - flat files S3 is a universal namespace - unique names for buckets HTTP 200 successful upload code Format of bucket names: http://s3-aws-region.amazonaws.com/bucket (https://s3-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/bucketname) Bucket site hosting URL: http://examplebucket.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ Data consistency model…

Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. It is a fully managed cloud database and supports both document and key-value store models. Its flexible data model, reliable…

Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Nginx, GO, and Docker You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling…

AWS CloudFormation Hardware infrastructure and convert it to code Gives developers and SYSAdmins an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly predictable fashion. Don't need to figure out…

SWF Simple Workflow Service Web service to coordinate work across distributed application components task oriented API Simple Work flow - human interaction to complete order or collection of services to complete a work order. Workers - interact with SWF to…