Understanding Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Explore the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how they provide scalable, reliable infrastructure for cloud solutions. Understand key AWS services such as EC2, S3, auto-scaling, load balancing, and content delivery to design effective cloud architectures.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud provides a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure for deploying web-scale solutions, with minimal support and administration costs, and more flexibility than you’ve come to expect from your own infrastructure, either on-premise or at a data center facility.
AWS offers a variety of infrastructure services today. The diagram below will introduce you to the AWS terminology and help you understand how your application can interact with different Amazon Web Services and how different services interact with each other.
Compute / VMs
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. You can bundle the operating system, application software, and associated configuration settings into an Amazon Machine Image (AMI).