Fundamental Storage Services Companies today are creating massive amounts of data that needs to be stored. They are turning to block-based, file-based, and object-based storage solutions to try to keep up with their storage demands. AWS wants to be of assistance and offers many different cloud-based storage solutions covering the gamut of storage technologies. In…
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Other Network Services – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Other Network Services While there are many other network services in AWS, two of the ones you need to be familiar with are discussed in this section: Route 53 and CloudFront. Each performs critical functions that you need to understand. Route 53 Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System…
Fundamental Network Services
Fundamental Network Services It is pretty amazing when you think about just how much “networking” AWS is responsible for. If we take a recent estimate of the number of AWS customers, we are looking at about 1.5 million entities (at this writing). That number is amazing enough, but when we remember that each of these…
Other Database Services – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Other Database Services As time has passed, more and more specialized database types have been developed. This is partly due to the fact that relational database structures and designs do not work well for storing the data of newer and different technologies. In this section, we examine some of the various non-relational database services of…
Relational Database Services
Relational Database Services Relational databases are some of the oldest and most cherished database technologies in tech today. Is it any surprise that AWS created a service called Relational Database Service (RDS)? Amazon’s marketing department definitely wanted to make it very clear: If your organization relies on relational database technologies, and you want to experience…
Serverless Compute – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Serverless Compute An important revolution in public cloud technology—the invention of serverless computing—occurred years ago. Sure enough, serverless compute has remained a hugely important part of public cloud. Cloud customers no longer need to spin up virtual machines that they then must manage. Instead, serverless computing makes a pool of compute horsepower available to cloud…
Container Options – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Container Options Containers are very popular—and with good reason. These virtualization components are smaller and more efficient than virtual machines when it comes to making a single application or service available. As a result, more and more organizations are turning to containers for delivering their solutions. AWS is perfectly aware of this. In fact, Amazon…
EC2 – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides secure and resizable compute resources in the AWS Cloud. The EC2 service allows you to provision and configure capacity with minimal effort. It provides you with easy control of your compute resources. EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new servers…
Interface Endpoints – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Interface Endpoints An interface endpoint is an elastic network interface with a private IP address that serves as an entry point for traffic destined for a supported service. Here are just some of the many popular services that are supported: API Gateway CloudWatch CodeBuild Config EC2 Elastic Load Balancing API Key Management Service Kinesis Data…
AWS Global Accelerator
AWS Global Accelerator AWS Global Accelerator is a service that helps improve the availability and performance of applications by using static anycast IP addresses and directing traffic over the AWS global network. This service is designed to route traffic over the optimal AWS network path, reducing latency and providing a more consistent user experience. Anycast…