ELB: Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
The Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) distributes traffic across different instances. It spans the region and uses ever Availability Zone (AZ).…
EBS: Amazon Elastic Block Storage
To understand Elastic Block Storage, we need to first understand what block storage is and how if differs from object…
Amazon Routing and Firewalls
Routing allows traffic in and out of a VPC. An Internet Gateway (IGW) allows two different networks to share traffic.…
Simple explanation of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated section of Amazon cloud. You can create your own VPC in…
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,…
Can I drive on Amazon Route 53
No. Route in Route 53 refers to routing traffic, not an Interstate highway. Amazon Route 53 is a globally distributed…
How traffic is routed and access is controlled in AWS
Routing is the process of directing traffic flow between networks or VPCs. Routing also connects a VPC to the Internet.…
Overview of Key AWS Services
Following is a snapshot of key AWS services: Compute Amazon EC2: virtual computing AWS Lambda: serverless computing Amazon Elastic Container…
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud – EC2
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) refers to compute (server) resources. In AWS, servers are called Amazon EC2 instances or just “instances”.…
What is the customer responsible for in the shared responsibility model
On the cloud, security is the shared responsibility of AWS and the customers. In a nutshell: Customer is responsible for…