AWS: Basics

Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform that provides customers with a wide array of cloud services. We can define?AWS?(Amazon Web Services) as a secured cloud services platform that offers compute power, database storage, content delivery and various other functionalities.

AWS is a comprehensive, easy to use computing platform offered Amazon.

AWS Services:

Amazon Web Services offers a wide range of different business purpose global cloud-based products. The products include storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, development tools, enterprise applications, with a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Here, are essential AWS services.

Compute?Services

Here, are Cloud Compute Services offered by Amazon:

1. EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud):?EC2 is a virtual machine in the cloud on which you have OS level control. You can run this cloud server whenever you want.
2. AWS Lambda?:?This?AWS service allows you to run functions in the cloud. The tool is a big cost saver for you as you to pay only when your functions execute.

Storage Services

1. S3 Bucket:?An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering. Amazon S3 buckets, which are similar to file folders, store objects, which consist of data and its descriptive metadata.

Database Services

1. Amazon DynamoDB:?It is a fast, fully managed NoSQL database service. It is a simple service which allow cost-effective storage and retrieval of data. It also allows you to serve any level of request traffic.

Networking & Content Delivery

1. VPC:?Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that you've defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you'd operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.
2. Route 53:?Amazon Route 53?is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed for developers and corporates to route the end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.mydomain.com , into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.

Security Services

1. IAM (Identity and Access Management)?:? IAM is a secure cloud security service which helps you to manage users, assign policies, form groups to manage multiple users.
2. KMS (Key Management Service)?: It is a managed service. This security service helps you to create and control the encryption keys?which allows you to encrypt your data.

Analytics

1. Kinesis?:?This AWS analytics service helps you to stream and analyzing real-time data at massive scale.

Management Services

1. Cloud Watch?:?Cloud watch helps you to monitor AWS environments like EC2, RDS instances, and CPU utilization. It also triggers alarms depends on various metrics.
2. Cloud Formation?:?It is a way of turning infrastructure into the cloud. You can use templates for providing a whole production environment in minutes.
3. AWS Auto Scaling?:The service allows you to automatically scale your resources up and down based on given Cloud Watch metrics.

Application Services

1. SNS (Simple Notification Service)?: You can use this service to send you notifications in the form of email and SMS based on given AWS services.
2. SQS (Simple Queue Service)?: ?Use this AWS service to decouple your applications. It is a pull-based service.

Deployment and Management Services

1. Amazon Cloud Watch:?The tools monitor AWS resources like Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS DB Instances. It also allows you to monitor custom metrics created by user's applications and services.

Containers Services

1. Elastic Container Registry:?Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Amazon?ECR?is integrated with Amazon Elastic Container?Service?(ECS), simplifying your development to production workflow.
2. Elastic Container Service:?Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster.
3. Elastic Kubernetes Service:?Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed?Kubernetes ?service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.

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