amazon web services (aws) - a brief introduction

Notes

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See the “Notes” section for more details and links.

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Amazon Services

STORAGE

S3

Glacier

EBS

High performance databases

ElastiCache

Redshift Dynamo

RDS

LOW COST

COMPUTE

EC2

Elastic Cloud Compute EC2

Allows you to

Obtain virtual servers, (Compute Instances)

Resize your compute capacity in the cloud

Advantage: Save yourself time space and money!

Simple Storage Service S3

Online file storage web service

S3 provides storage through web services interfaces

(REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent).

Useful but you end up getting roped into EBS

Management tools

Amazon Web Services Management Console

Clunky, slow and unintuitive IMO

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Download and code using SDKs in your choice of

language…

Java, PHP, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby..

Getting started with EC2

1. Choosing instance type

• Pick a template (AMI) OR customize

2. Specify Quantity

AMI

Amazon machine instance

Template from where you launch you can launch and

instance

Create your own custom AMI

Shared AMIs

AMI types

Storage for the Root Device

Regions and Availability Zones

Operating system

Architecture (32-bit or 64-bit)

Launch Permissions

Backing up data

Amazon EBS or Amazon S3

Choose which one based on persistent storage

Amazon S3

Amazon EBS

Instances and AMI

Instance types

CPU

Memory

Storage

Networking capacity

Instance types

CPU Credits?

T1.micro and t2.micro difference

Way that CPU bursting occurs

Region and Availability Zone

Regions

Availability Zones

Phases of instance

Security Best practices

Create IAM user

Create groups

Create key pair

VPC

Free Tier

Free for anyone to start, just be wary of which

instance types you choose!

Future projects? Ideas?

AWS SDK using Laravel

AWS Basics

More AWS articles and videos

AWS and Wordpress

Demo time

Thanks everyone!