Elastic Block Store (EBS) When you spin up a virtual machine in the EC2 service of AWS, that machine is going to need a boot volume in order to function. AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically…
S3 Storage Classes – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
S3 Storage Classes While initially S3 did not offer many different storage classes, times have changed. Today, AWS offers many different classes to permit you to save on costs while providing the required levels of durability. At this writing, the following storage classes are available in AWS S3: S3 Standard: This is the default storage…
Google Cloud Functions example
Now that you’ve learned what Cloud Functions is, I’d like to show you how to implement a sample Cloud Function. We will guide you through optical character recognition (OCR) on Google Cloud Platform with Cloud Functions. Our use case is as follows: We need to download the samples first; we will use Golang as the…
Fundamental Storage Services
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…
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…
Cloud Functions overview
The main advantage of Cloud Functions in Google Cloud is that you only need to write your code. Everything else will be done for you; there is no need to manage any infrastructure. Cloud Functions integrates very well within the Google Cloud products ecosystem. Functions listen and respond to various events – for example, when…
Cloud Run traffic management
Cloud Run allows you to specify which revision should receive traffic. It can be the latest revision, and you can split the traffic by percentages between different revisions. It is possible to use tags for testing, traffic migration, and rollbacks. To manage the traffic in a service, we need to navigate to Service and click…
Cloud Run application deployment
Now that we’ve learned about the Cloud Run architecture and two possible application deployment types, it is time to deploy our first application – a service: Figure 7.5 – Initial screen before deploying the Cloud Run application 2. We can choose from any container image we wish, but in our case, we will use a…