AWS Cloud Computing

Let's first clear some basics!

What is AWS ?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
Amazon web service is a platform that offers flexible, reliable, scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective cloud computing solutions.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

What does AWS allows us to do ?

AWS allows you to do the following things

Running web and application servers in the cloud to host dynamic websites.
Securely store all your files on the cloud so you can access them from anywhere.
Create chatbots.
Generate Insights on Data using the power of AI and ML.
Using managed databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server to store information.
Deliver static and dynamic files quickly around the world using a Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Send bulk email to your customers.

Some Terminologies

Region — Physical location around the world where AWS keeps cluster data centers.
Availability Zone — It is simply a data center. An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region.
Edge Location — They are CDN (Content Delivery Network) endpoints for
Cloud Front. It makes you content delivery faster.

AWS Services

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) — These are just the virtual machines in the cloud on which you have the OS level control. You can run whatever you want in them.
Lambda — AWS’s serverless technology that allows you to run functions in the cloud. It’s a huge cost saver as you pay only when your functions execute.
ECS (Elastic Container Service) — Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service.
EKS (Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) — Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) gives you the flexibility to start, run, and scale Kubernetes applications in the AWS cloud or on-premises.

S3 (Simple Storage Service) — Storage service of AWS in which we can store objects like files, folders, images, documents, songs, etc.
EFS (Elastic File System) — Provides file storage for use with your EC2 instances. It uses the NFSv4 protocol and can be used concurrently by thousands of instances.
Glacier — It is an extremely low-cost archival service to store files for a long time like a few years or even decades.

DynamoDB — It is a highly scalable, high-performance NoSQL database. It provides single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
RDS (Relational Database Service) — Allows you to run relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server. These databases are fully managed by AWS
Elasticache — It is a way of caching data inside the cloud. It can be used to take a load off of your database by caching the most frequent queries.
RedShift — Amazon Redshift is a fully-managed petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse product designed for large-scale data set storage and analysis. It is also used to perform large-scale database migrations.

Lex — Allows you to quickly build chatbots.
SageMaker — Helps you to build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale.
Polly — AWS’s text-to-speech service. You can create audio versions of your notes using it.

VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) — It is simply a data center in the cloud in which you deploy all your resources. It allows you to better isolate your resources and secure them.
CloudFront -It is AWS’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) that consists of Edge
locations that cache resources.
Route53 — It is AWS’s highly available DNS (Domain Name System) service. You can register domain names through it as well as fully manage CNAME records.
API Gateway — Allows you to create, store, and manage APIs at scale.

CloudWatch — It can be used to monitor AWS environments like CPU utilization of EC2 and RDS instances and trigger alarms based on different metrics.
CloudFormation — It is a way of turning infrastructure into the cloud. You can
use templates to provision a whole production environment in minutes.

The list can go on and on...

Hope you like this. Cheers.