AWS Flashcards
Define acronym: EC2
Elastic Cloud Compute
What is EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute)?
VMs, Linux or Windows, computational brain behind app, not limited to a single region (availability zones)
Define acronym: ELB
Elastic Load Balance
What is ELB?
Elastic Load Balance are the rules that allow traffic to be distributed between availability zones
Define acronym: EBS
Elastic Block Storage
What is EBS (Elastic Block Storage)?
Like a HD, stores persistent files and apps that are accessed often, 1GB to 1TB but must be located in same AZ
Define acronym: S3
Simple Storage Service
What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)?
public facing data, ex. new twitter profile pic, static content, videos, music
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
PaaS
Platform as a Service
SaaS
Software as a Service
VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
IAM
Identity Access Management
ECR
EC2 Container Registry
What is EC2 Container Registry?
fully-managed Docker container registry to store, manage, deploy Docker container images