The latest articles on DEV Community by Juan (@juancpgo). https://dev.to/juancpgo https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F312484%2Fe76871c7-0866-41ce-8779-28f2a28ad32e.jpg https://dev.to/juancpgo en Juan Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:53:01 +0000 https://dev.to/juancpgo/social-network-infrastructure-on-premise-vs-aws-1oed https://dev.to/juancpgo/social-network-infrastructure-on-premise-vs-aws-1oed <p>I put this image together from two screenshots from the video <a href="https://youtu.be/Z3SYDTMP3ME">Introduction to AWS Services</a> (Jun 9, 2019). May be helpful to those learning the basics of AWS. In the video, the instructor assembles the infrastructure piece-by-piece explaining each role.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--YvWZ86-w--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ukg7u9g0j95twhmy6a3f.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--YvWZ86-w--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ukg7u9g0j95twhmy6a3f.png" alt="Alt Text"></a></p> <p>The table below summarizes each service shown above:<br> (Ps: AWS has many other services)</p> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>AWS Service</th> <th>Service role</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Route53</strong></td> <td>DNS Service</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>VPC</strong> (Virtual Private Cloud)</td> <td>“Private Network”</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>EC2</strong> (Elastic Compute Cloud)</td> <td>Virtual Machines</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>EBS</strong> (Elastic Block Storage)</td> <td>Disk (attached to the VMs)</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>RDS</strong> (Relational Database Service)</td> <td>Relational Database</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>DynamoDB</strong></td> <td>NoSQL Database</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>ElastiCache</strong></td> <td>Database Cache Engine</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>ELB</strong> (Elastic Load Balancer)</td> <td>Load Balancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>S3</strong> (Simple Storage Service)</td> <td>External Storage</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Rekognition</strong></td> <td>Content Filter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Lambda</strong></td> <td>Serverless computation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Kinesis</strong></td> <td>Clickstream Analysis Engine</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>EMR</strong> (Elastic MapReduce)</td> <td>Data Processing Platform</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Glue</strong></td> <td>Managed ETL Service</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Redshift</strong></td> <td>Data Warehouse Service</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Athena</strong></td> <td>SQL Query Interface</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Quicksight</strong></td> <td>Business Intelligence Tool</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>CloudFront</strong> (&amp; Edge Locations)</td> <td>Content Delivery Network</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>SNS</strong> (Simple Notification Service)</td> <td>Notification Service (Push, SMS)</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>SES</strong> (Simple Email Service)</td> <td>Email Service</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <strong>SQS</strong> (Simple Queue Service)</td> <td>Message Queue Service</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>CloudWatch</strong></td> <td>Monitoring Dashboard</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p>Turns out it's not that scary, huh? 😅</p> aws devops