This document provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) including compute services like EC2, storage services like S3 and EBS, database services like RDS and DynamoDB, networking services like VPC and ELB, developer tools like Lambda and more. It describes the core capabilities and features of each major AWS service.

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Introduction to:

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AWS Regions and zones (Jan 2016)
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

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AWS Edge locations (Jan 2016)
https://aws.amazon.com/products/

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AWS Management Console

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EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
● Virtual machines.
● Windows / Linux
● Different combinations of:
– Memory
– Processing capabilities
● Security groups (Firewall)

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EBS (Elastic Block Store)
● Persistent hard drives
● SSD / Magnetic
● Provisioned IOPS
● Snapshots
● Replicated across multiple servers
in an Availability Zone

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VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
● Your network on the cloud
● Isolation of resources
● Control over:
– Subnets
– IP ranges
– Routing
● Network ACL

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ELB (Elastic Load Balancing)
● Internal & external load balancing
● Health checks
● SSL Offloading
● Supports sticky sessions
● Multiple protocols – not http only
More info:
Configuring and testing AWS Elastic Load Balancer:
http://blog.heshamamin.com/2015/05/configuring-and-testing-aws-elastic.html
AWS Elastic Load Balancing session stickiness:
http://blog.heshamamin.com/2016/01/aws-elastic-load-balancing-session.html
http://blog.heshamamin.com/2016/02/aws-elastic-load-balancing-session.html

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Route 53
● DNS Service
● Health checks
● DNS failover
● Latency based routing
● Domain registration

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S3 (Simple Storage Service)
● Object storage:
– Standard: 99.999999999% durability,
99.99% availability
– Infrequent Access
– Reduced Redundancy 99.99% durability
● Versioning
● Cross-region replication (optional – extra cost)
● Encryption
● Lifecycle Management
● Security
● Static site hosting

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Amazon CloudFront
● Content Delivery Network
● Static & dynamic content
● HTTP(S) and RTMP (for flash
streaming)
● Geo Restriction
● Control TTL Settings
● Gzip
● Forward Headers to Origin

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RDS (Relational Database Service)
● Databases supported:
– Aurora
– MySQL
– MariaDB
– Oracle
– MS SQL Server
– PostgreSQL
● Automatic Software Patching
● General purpose and provisioned IOPS SSD
● Automated Backups - point-in-time recovery
● Multi-AZ Deployments – Read replicas
● Network isolation

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Amazon EFS (Preview)
● Network File System version 4
● Can be shared across instances
● SSD Based
● Redundantly stored across multiple
Availability Zones

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DynamoDB● NoSQL database
● Key-value & Document Data Model
– JSON documents
– Schema-less
● Secondary Indexes
● Scaling and availability
● Triggers (With Lambda)
● Read Consistency:
– Eventually consistent
– Strong Consistency (Read the latest written value)
● Atomic Counters (Increment / decrement)
● Integration with:
– Elastic search
– Elastic MapReduce
– Redshift
– Data Pipeline
● Downloadable development version

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SQS (Simple Queue Service)
● First AWS service
● Fast, reliable, scalable, fully managed
message queuing service

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Amazon Glacier
● Data archiving
● Low cost
● Integrated lifecycle management with
Amazon S3

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EC2 Container Service
● Container management service
● Docker support
● Runs over EC2
● Load balancing (ELB)
● Monitoring and logging
● Container registry

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Lambda
● Server-less architecture
● Handle triggers from S3, DynamoDB, or
Kinesis stream
● Custom backend logic (APIs)
● Built-in Fault Tolerance
● Automatic Scaling
● Java, Node.js, and Python