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Cloud Computing Building Blocks (AWS)

An overview of the wide suite of offerings from major cloud providers, useful for determining how to assemble your system. The focus is on Amazon Web Services's core capabilities. An overview of the wide suite of offerings from major cloud providers, useful for determining how to assemble your system. The focus is on Amazon Web Services's core capabilities, including computing power, storage solutions, networking functionalities, and managed services. This section will provide insights into how AWS's building blocks can be leveraged to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective systems tailored to specific business needs.

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1. LESSON

Introduction to Amazon EC2

AWS-EC2 [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud] AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the superhero of the tech world, providing a full range of services like a buffet, from computation and memory to databases, translation, networking, and more. The Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, is the muscle that makes it all possible. EC2 is like a high-end fitne...

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Introduction to Amazon S3: Simple Storage Service

Amazon Web Service: Simple Storage Service Amazon created the Simple Storage Service, more commonly known as Amazon S3, through Amazon Web Service (AWS) to make web-scale processing features more accessible to customers. Amazon S3 is a well-known service that enables us to read and store data from any account. It allows users to use...

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Introduction to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Easy App Deployment on AWS AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed service by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to deploy, scale, and manage applications in the cloud. Some key highlights of Elastic Beanstalk: Streamlined Deployment Provides automated deployment of applications to AWS infrastructur...

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Introduction to Amazon IAM

Identity and Access Management Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a digital platform that allows you to securely manage access to AWS services. Organizations use IAM to control who is logged in and who has access to services. When you initially register on AWS, you get a user login ID with full access to Amazon services and facilities....

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Introduction to Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

AWS ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) Elastic load balancing (ELB) is used to distribute application traffic over many target points such as AWS-EC2 instances, buckets, IP addresses, Lambda operations, and virtual machines. In one Availability Area, or throughout many Availability Areas, ELB can manage the variable load of the data traffic of ap...

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Introduction to Amazon Relational Database Service

Amazon Relational Database Service – AWS-RDS Relational Database Service (RDS) is a prominent Amazon web services tool. RDS is designed to take care of SQL data applications while simultaneously helping an array of SQL databases to store and organize documents. RDS also offers significant database activity management assistance. Amazon RDS...

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Introduction to Amazon Auto Scaling Group

AWS-ASG (Amazon Auto-Scaling Group) An Amazon Auto-Scaling Group (ASG) is a logical group of Amazon EC2 instances with identical features. ASG is a cloud services technology that allows for the appropriate allocation of computational resources. Every Amazon EC2 instance in the group must adhere to auto-scaling policies. The number of occurr...

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Introduction to Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data collection and storage service. Amazon Redshift makes it possible for a customer to use business intelligence, or BI, techniques to evaluate quantitative data and make managing large-scale datasets simpler. In Redshift, Big Red refers to Oracle, whose official color is red. To g...

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Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB

What Is DynamoDB? Amazon's DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that supports key-value and document data structures. The concept for it is based on a collection of strong distributed systems and concepts that enable maximum scalability and reliability. DynamoDB has been in the works for the last 15 years and is the result of significan...

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Introduction to Amazon Lambda

AWS Lambda is a fascinating and transformative technology. Let's break it down into organized sections to better understand what it's all about, why it matters, and how it works. AWS Lambda: Revolutionizing the Server Landscape AWS Lambda represents a bold step in the evolution of cloud computing, moving beyond traditional server management...

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