Load Balancer: A hardware/software that distributes load across many servers. Instances: aka virtual machines(VM)A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system OS which imitates dedicated hardware usually configured through software.
system in which a Operating system is installed directly on hardware. Root Access: Access to run as an administrator on the Operating System. AWS: Amazon Web Services
cloud service provider to provision flexible computing power when and wherever required. Automation: “If you’re doing it manually you are doing it wrong” Design for Failure: “Design for failure and nothing will fail.”
AZ’s are distinct locations within a region that are engineered to be isolated from failures in other AZ’s. AZ’s have low latency (sub 1-2ms) network connectivity to other AZ’s in the same region. By load balancing across separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from the failure of a single location.
that provides resizable computer capacity. Setup in minutes. Charged by the hour while running. AMI: Amazon Machine Image is a special type of pre-configured operating system which is used to create a Virtual Machine within EC2. You can start with community run AMI’s and then make your own. Security Group: A virtual firewall to specify what ports are accessible on your EC2 instance. EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud
is designed for durability of 99.999999999% of objects. Scalable: With Amazon S3, you can store as much data as you want and access it when needed. Archive: Automatic migrate less frequently accessed data to Amazon Glacier for long term cheap storage. Static Website Hosting: You can host your entire static website on Amazon S3 for a low-cost. S3 - Amazon Simple Storage Service
It integrates with other Amazon Web Services products Dynamic Content: Use Amazon CloudFront to deliver all of your content including S3 objects. Low Latency: Access media files / content at very low latency. 54 Edge locations to serve content. Amazon Cloudfront
set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Scalable: You can scale your database's compute and storage resources with only a few mouse clicks or an API call. Multi-AZ: Multi-Availability Zone deployments allows synchronous physical replication to keep data on the standby database up-to-date with the primary. Amazon Relational Database Service
storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Scalable: Increase or decrease block storage and performance within minutes. Reliable: Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure. Amazon Elastic Block Store