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…
Cloud Run revisions – Google Exams Guide
Each deployment to service creates a revision. Once a revision has been created, it cannot be modified. If we wished to change the container image, we would need to create a new revision. The following figure shows active requests connecting to Service A via Revision A-3. We have two older revisions of Service A that…
Implementing Compute Solutions – Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Infrastructure as Code
This chapter aims to familiarize ourselves with various compute solutions and how to implement them. We are going to cover the following main topics: We will start with IaC, a stateless computing service where we can run containerized code. The next topic will be IaC, where we will learn about running code in response to…
Removing services – Google Exams Guide
Removal of services can be performed in Cloud console and by using the kubectl command-line tool. Cloud console In Cloud console, we need to navigate to Services & Ingress, select the desired service to be removed, and click the DELETE button: Figure 6.70 – Deleting services in Cloud console After a moment, the service is…
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…
Command line – Google Exams Guide
We have an application called my-nginx running as a deployment with two Pods. We want to create a service of type ClusterIP for the workload running under the name my-nginx. To create a service of type ClusterIP, we can use the following code:apiVersion: v1kind: Servicemetadata: name: my-nginx labels: run: my-nginxspec: ports: – port: 80 protocol: TCP selector: run: my-nginx The preceding code can…
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…