AWS Global Infrastructure AWS Regions AWS Availability Zones AWS Data Centers AWS Edge Locations / Points of Presence AWS Regions A region is a cluster or collection of data centers. AWS has regions all around the world. Most AWS services ar...
API Gateway Serverless REST APIs Invoke Lambda functions using REST APIs (API gateway will proxy the request to lambda) AWS Lambda + API Gateway: No infrastructure to manage Supports WebSocket (stateful) Handle API versioning (v1, v2…), handle d...
ECS AWS managed container orchestration platform Integrates with ALB for load balancing ECS tasks Launch Docker containers on AWS = Launch ECS Tasks on ECS Clusters EFS is used as persistent multi-AZ shared storage for ECS tasks Launch Types EC...
What is DNS? Please refer this Udemy lecture. Route 53 Global service A highly available, scalable, fully managed and Authoritative DNS (customer can update the DNS records and have full control over the DNS) Route 53 is also a Domain Registrar ...
EC2 Region-scoped/Regional service EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Stopping & Starting an instance may change its public IP but not its private IP AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS Compute resources...
DynamoDB Serverless, Fully managed, NoSQL DB, highly available with multi-AZ Distributed Database Not an in-memory database (uses storage devices) Supports storage auto-scaling Millions of requests per seconds, trillions of row, 100s of TB of st...
AWS Lambda Lambda It is a serverless Function as a Service (Faas) Pay per request (number of invocations) and compute time Integrated with CloudWatch for monitoring Not good for running containerized applications Can package and deploy Lambda fu...
AWS CloudFront Global service. AWS CloudFront is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). Improves read performance, content is cached at the edge, reducing load at the origin. 216 Point of Presence globally (Edge Locations). DDoS protection (because w...
Elastic Container Registry (ECR) AWS managed private Docker repository Public repository (Amazon ECR Public Gallery https://gallery.ecr.aws) Pay for the storage you use to store docker images (no provisioning) Integrated with ECS & IAM for securi...