Category: AWS Amazon Web Services

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”. What is…

Go to (http://aws.amazon.com) Sign in Click on EC2 Click on Running Instances Select you pem key. It should match the key pair name. Make sure that the pem key has…

Amazon S3 is simply a collection of objects stored in a bucket. Buckets are created in a region. Buckets are replicated in multiple Availability Zones (AZ) within the same region.…

The Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) distributes traffic across different instances. It spans the region and uses ever Availability Zone (AZ). ELB is inherently secure, resilient, scalable but the client is…

To understand Elastic Block Storage, we need to first understand what block storage is and how if differs from object storage. Block storage breaks data into block and then stores…

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…

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…

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated section of Amazon cloud. You can create your own VPC in AWS cloud. With Amazon VPC, you get full control over…

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…

No. Route in Route 53 refers to routing traffic, not an Interstate highway. Amazon Route 53 is a globally distributed Domain Name Service (DNS). DNS is a web service designed…