Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

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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