We CNT Technologies is starting a series of blogs on AWS. Whether you are
looking to learn about cloud computing for your career or for interesting purposes.
we are sure that you will find this article helpful
Let us Begin with cloud computing
AWS:
AWS server is a secured cloud service provided by amazon for offering computing power,
database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help business growth.
Amazon Web Services is a secured cloud services platform,which offer his computing power
,storage for database, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses to
grow and scale.
AWS cloud server allow you to do following things
- AWS allow you to Run web and application servers in the cloud .To host dynamic websites.
- AWS store securely all your files on the cloud. So you can access them from anywhere.
- AWS cloud alllow you to Use managed databases like mysql, postgresql, Oracle or sql
- Server to store information.
- Deliver static and dynamic files quickly around the world using a CDN
- Send bulk emails to your customers.
- Now that you know what you can do with AWS, let's have an view of various AWS services.
Terminologies used in AWS
Region —
A region is geographical area which two or more zones.
Availability Zone —
it is a data center.
Edge Location —
These are cdn endpoints for cloud front.
EC2 —
These are only just the virtual machine which is running on
cloud.you have os level control on virtual machines. you can run any
services as you want on virtual machines.
LightSail —
If you do not have any prior experience with AWS then this service is
for you. It automatically deploys and manages to compute, storage and networking
capabilities required to run your applications.
ECS —
It is a highly expendable container service to allow you to run the Docker containers in
the cloud.
EKS —
Allows you to use kubernete on AWS cloud without installing and managing your own
Kubernete control plane. It is a relatively new service.
Lambda —
AWS’s server less technology allows you to run functions in the cloud servers. It’s a
high cost saver as you pay only when your functions are executing.
Batch —
It enable you to easily and efficiently run batch computing loads of any scale
on AWS cloud using amazon Ec2 and Ec2 spot fleet.
Elastic Beanstalk —
Allows automated deployment and provisioning of resources like
a highly scalable production website.
S3 —
storage service of AWS in which we can store objects
like files, folders, images, documents, songs, etc. It cannot be used to install software,
games or Operating systems.
EFS —
Provides file storage for use with your Ec2 instances. It uses the NFSv4 protocol
and can be bemused concurrently by thousands of instances.
Glacier —
It is very cost effective to store data for a long term as compare to other
cloud services.
Storage Gateway —
It is a virtual machine that you install on your on-premise servers.
Your on-premise data can be backed up to AWS providing more durability.
RDS —
Allows you to run relational databases like
MySqL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQL Server. These databases are fully
managed by AWS like installing antivirus and patches.
DynamoDB —
It is a highly scalable, high-performance NoSQL database. It provides
single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
Elasticache —
It is a way of caching data inside the cloud server. It can be used to take
a load off of your database by caching the most frequent queries.
Neptune —
It has been launched recently. It is a fast, reliable and scalable graph database
service.
RedShift —
It is AWS’s data warehousing solution that can be used to run complex
OLAP queries.
SMS —
It allows you to migrate on-site servers to AWS easily and quickly.
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