Exploring AWS !!
Day 2:
Cloud Computing (continued)
What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
On-demand Cloud Computing services
Specialization at providing IaaS
Provides various cloud services like compute, power, content delivery, storage
Competitors - Azure & GCP
#AWS Service Domains:
Compute - EC2, Elastic Beanstalk
Networking - VPC, CloudFront, Route53
Storage - S3, EFS
Database - RDS, Dynamodb
Starting off with AWS:
Create an Account - https://aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account/
Types of Hypervisor:
Type -1 (Native/Bare Metal)
Hardware --> Hypervisor --> RedHat Linux, MS Windows
Type -2 (Hosted)
Hardware --> OS --> Hypervisor --> RedHat Linux, MS Windows
Therefore, Type-1 is used by AWS.
Xen Hypervisor:
Xen project is a hypervisor using microkernel design.
Open source virtualization platform, which is powering biggest players in cloud.
AWS, RackSpace, OpenStack use Xen.
KVM also used in some places.
Summary (Day 1 & Day 2)
Cloud Computing is storing & accessing data & programs over internet.
Benefits are scalability & improved security.
Deployment & Service models.
AWS Services - Compute, Networking, Security, Databases.
Major Cloud Providers - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud.
Top comments (2)
Hi, Saloni.
This blog is very helpful for learning AWS from scratch.
As a backend developer, I'm very interested in AWS and passionate in learning this stack from underground. Hope you can post more blog that can be helpful for more developers here.
Thanks for your posting
Thanks for your support Levi !!