Category: Cloud Computing

Introduction to AWS Route 53 Routing Policy types When you create a record, you choose a routing policy, which determines how Amazon Route 53 responds to queries: Simple routing policy — Use for a single resource that performs a given function for your domain, for example, a web server that serves content for the example.com website. Weighted routing policy — Use to […]

Introduction to AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration TL;DR: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket. Transfer Acceleration takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations. S3TA improves transfer performance by routing traffic through Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed Edge Locations and over AWS backbone networks, and […]

Introduction to AWS S3 Storage Classes Amazon S3 offers a range of storage classes designed for different use cases. These include Standard for general-purpose storage of frequently accessed data; Intelligent-Tiering for data with unknown or changing access patterns; Standard-IA and One Zone-IA for long-lived, but less frequently accessed data; and Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive for long-term archive and digital preservation. Amazon S3 storage classes are designed to sustain the concurrent loss […]

Getting Started with AWS Serverless Computing Serverless is the native architecture of the cloud that enables you to shift more of your operational responsibilities to AWS, increasing your agility and innovation. Serverless allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers. It eliminates infrastructure management tasks such as server or cluster provisioning, patching, operating system maintenance, […]

CloudWatch vs CloudTrail in AWS CloudWatch focuses on the activity of AWS services and resources, reporting on their health and performance. CloudTrail is a log of all actions that have taken place inside your AWS environment. CloudWatch: AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and […]

Introduction to Amazon Simple Notification Service TL;DR: AWS SNS is a web service that coordinates and manages the delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. And makes it easy to set up, operate, and send a notification from the cloud. It provides developers with the highly scalable, cost-effective, and flexible capability to publish messages from an application […]

EFS (Elastic File System) vs EBS (Elastic Block Store) comparison in AWS TL;DR: Amazon EFS is an NFS file system service offered by AWS. An Amazon EFS file system is excellent as a managed network file system that can be shared across different Amazon EC2 instances and works like NAS devices. Amazon EBS is the block storage offered on AWS. An Amazon […]

EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs Instance Store in AWS TL;DR EBS volume is network attached drive which results in slow performance but data is persistent meaning even if you reboot the instance data will be there. Instance store instance store provides temporary block-level storage for your instance. This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer. EC2 Storage […]

SQS (Simple Queue Service) vs SWF (Simple Workflow Service) in AWS TL;DR: SQS is a service that allows you to queue messages giving you the ability to de-couple your environment. SQS will store and hold these messages in a highly scalable environment to be processed by another service or application as required. SWF is a different service altogether, it’s used to help […]