Unit 4 - Cloud Platforms in Industry and Applications
Unit 4 - Cloud Platforms in Industry and Applications
What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud platform that provides on-demand computing,
storage, and database services over the internet.
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): Lets you create isolated networks within the AWS cloud.
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): Provides virtual servers in the cloud.
S3 (Simple Storage Service): Scalable object storage.
Lambda: Lets you run code without managing servers.
AWS Services
Compute Services: EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS (for containers).
Storage Services: S3, EBS (for EC2), Glacier (for archiving).
Database Services: RDS (relational databases), DynamoDB (NoSQL databases), Elastic
Cache.
Networking Services: VPC, Route 53 (DNS), CloudFront (content delivery).
Security and Identity: IAM (user permissions), KMS (encryption), Shield (DDoS protection).
Deployment and Management: Cloud Formation (infrastructure as code), Cloud Watch
(monitoring), AWS CLI (command-line interface).
Amazon SimpleDB
A NoSQL database service.
It's designed to be simple, fast, and scalable.
Amazon EC2
A service that provides virtual servers in the cloud.
It allows users to rent computing power on demand.