Core Services Flashcards
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
Processing hardware hosted on AWS
EC2 Options
Region / multi-regional; AMI (Amazon Machine Image) / Software; and Hardware choice (RAM, HDD/SSD, etc.).
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Storage hardware on the cloud. Should be in same zone as attached EC2 instance.
EBS capabilities
Automatic data replication & point-in-time snapshots; on-the-fly hardware resize/swap
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Fully managed storage service on AWS; virtually unlimited size, durable, elastic storage.
S3 access options
Console, CLI, SDK & REST endpoints
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Fully managed regional network; allows for subnets, route tables, gateways and firewalls within AWS cloud services.