AWS offers Route53 for DNS and related services. ELB optimally distributes load between your EC2 instances.
Route53 is a DNS Service that provides a reliable and scalable way to route traffic. DNS maps IP to a domain name. Key features:
To setup:
There are three category of services provided by AWS to assist with implementing elasticity, deployment, and configuration management of applications. Generally, the more convenience you ask for, the less control you will get. You need to decide which service best suits your needs and matches your skill set:
Amazon offers a few storage options:
EFS works very much like your computer's directory structure. All files are classified hierarchically and each has a unique address which is used to retrieve it. Block storage is mostly used by software. Object can be any raw data such as an image, text file, pdf, etc. Objects are non-relational and unstructured. Each object has a unique id. This id is used to retrieve the object. REST API can also be used to access objects.
Autoscaling ensures that you have the sufficient AWS EC2 instances available to handle the load and it also ensures that you don't have more instances allocated than you require.
The load on a server fluctuates over time. Autoscaling allows you to allocate more EC2 resources when you need them and retire them when you no longer need them. You can either manually define peak and low-peak times or you can define rules based on CloudWatch alarm that automatically allocate and retire resources as needed.
Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 refers to compute (server) resources. In AWS, servers are called Amazon EC2 instances or just "instances". To create or change an EC2 instance, login into your AWS console. Then click on relevant links under EC2. Once your setup is complete, you can log into your instance via your terminal.
You can create your own private cloud with AWS cloud. VPC is a logically isolated section of AWS Cloud. Following are key features of VPC:
There are 3 ways to use AWS:
To access the console, go to http://aws.amazon.com/console. Login and you will see a list of resources and services you can setup and configure.
CLI interface allows you to access AWS through your terminal window. See AWS CLI to learn how to use it. Example command:
aws ec2 describe-instances
username is: - ec2-user for Amazon Linux - ec2-user for RHEL5 - ubuntu for Ubuntu - ec2-user for Fedora - ec2-user for SUSE Linux
Amazon defines Amazon Web Services (AWS) as "a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow".
On demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the Internet
With the traditional model, you need to procure sufficient hardware, bandwidth, and human resources to run the IT infrastructure. Your infrastructure is fixed and financed.
If you don't already have MySQL installed, install it with the following commands (mac only):
$ brew info mysql
$ brew install mysql
$ brew tap homebrew/services
Run the following commands to start or stop mysql. Start MySQL before proceeding:
$ brew services stop mysql
$ brew services start mysql
To see available sevices:
$ brew services list
To check MySQL version:
$ mysql -V
Set root password