AWS

Elastic Compute Cloud

About Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. It takes minutes to launch new instances. Anything and everything on AWS uses EC2 instance undernath. It supports machines from nano (1vCPU) and 0.5GB mem to 112xlarge with 448vCPU and 12288Gb mem. EC2 is hosted on the concept of server virtualization, where the full computing power of server hardware can be divided into various instances and offered to the end-user as a computing instance over the internet.

April 19, 2022 Read

Cognito

About AWS Cognito is a service to handle user authentication and authorization. Using the best security practices gives us the way to manage users and access. It offers: Secure and scalable identity store Social and enterprise identity federation Standards-based authentication Security for apps and users Access control for AWS resources Easy integration with apps Cognito it’s cheap as well, with a free tier that gives 50,000 monthly active users for UserPools and 50 for users from SAML 2.

April 2, 2022 Read

Identity Access Management

About AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides fine-grained access control across all of AWS. With IAM, you can specify who can access which services and resources, and under which conditions. With IAM policies, you manage permissions to your workforce and systems to ensure the least privilege permissions. You manage access in AWS by creating policies and attaching them to IAM identities (users, groups of users, or roles) or AWS resources.

April 2, 2022 Read

Route 53

About Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Much like Godaddy and NameCheap, but with more synergies with others AWS services. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.

April 2, 2022 Read

Virtual Private Cloud

About It manages how your applications are distributed inside AWS servers, and more importantly, how will be the network access of these applications for in and out network connections. The AWS Cloud is distributed in regions and availability zones (AZ) around the world. With VPC we can get access to this infrastructure, a logically isolated section, to control the virtual networking environment, including resource placement, connectivity, and security. In the example above, network traffic is being shared between two VPCs in single Region.

April 2, 2022 Read

Simple Storage Service

About It’s a service to store any objects. As Serverless storage in the Cloud, that’s no need to worry about filesystems or disk space. For all topics, there is a link in the end with more info about it. Uses It could be used as a Data Lake, cloud-native applications, mobile apps. A more common example is to host a static website like this blog one. Another one is to store files to your client’s downloads later and go on.

March 21, 2022 Read

Snowball

About A service to physically transfer data to or from AWS data centers in Petabyte-scale. Advantages Low Cost: It charges thousands of dollars to transfer 100TB over high-speed internet. Snowball can reduce that cost by 1/5th. Speed: it cant take 100TB over 100days to transfer over high-speed internet. Snowball can reduce that transfer time by less than a week. Snowball Edge (100TB and 100TB Clustered): LCD Display Can undertake local processing and edge-computing workloads Can be used in a cluster in groups of 5 to 10 devices.

March 21, 2022 Read