Month: March 2021

Handling traffic in AWS

Amazon provides three primary services to handle traffic. Amazon Route 53 is a DNS service. AWS Direct Connect is a fast connection to between Amazon cloud and on-premise resources. Elastic…

Amazon Routing and Firewalls

Routing allows traffic in and out of a VPC. An Internet Gateway (IGW) allows two different networks to share traffic. The networks would be your VPC and another VPC or…

What is well-architected infrastructure

A well-architected infrastructure is reliable, secure, performant, cost effective, and operationally excellent. In infrastructure, reliability mostly refers to fault tolerance, availability, and durability. A fault tolerant system is able to…