Region is a geographic part of the world. Within each region there are two or more availability zones AZ uses entirely different infrastructure. Different flood plains, different connectorsHigh speed connectors between the AZ’s
Scalable domain name serviceRoute end users to your web applications through its distributed DNS
Lets you create your own virtual network topology in AmazonYou have complete control over the network can create ip address ranges , create sub nets etcGives you an additional layer of securityMakes hybrid possible – cloud burstingAllows you to extend your data center into the cloud
Dedicated direct connection from on premises to your AWS cloudBypasses the public internet – in effect it’s a VPN tunnelHigh bandwidth and predictable latency
EC2 - pprovides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. There are a range of prebuilt AMI’s to choose from or you can build your ownSpin up time – 10 minsMicro instance is free for a year pretty much right up to the 42nd fastest super computer in the world !Specs for IO intensive work Reserved, spot instances,
Traditionally you plan for peak
Key value pairs in the cloud, think of a file server in the cloud1 trillion objects in S3, that’s 100 objects for each person on the earthReliability is 99 and 9 9’s which means – “ If you store 10,000 objects with us, on average we may lose one of them every 10 million years or so”WORM data – write once read many times…
Persistent hard drive that you can attach to your server.Can create multiple volumes and mount themPlaced in a specific availability zoneProvisioned I/Ops…
AWS GlacierLow cost fully redundant archiving and back up service$0.01 per gigabyte per monthYou can retrieve up to 5% of your average monthly storage (pro-rated daily) for free each monthTakes several hours to extract the dataReplacement to back up to magnetic tape
Some limitations-read only replicas not available on SQL ServerCant take a copy back on premise easily
Building blocks for common things you need in an applicationCachingQueueuingNotificationsEmails ServicesWorkflow ServiceALL API drive and you can develop in most programming languages
Fully automated resource provisioning through code
Real-time metrics from your infrastructure on AWSCan set up alerts, warnings, notifications, auto scale rules