Another productive step in my AWS learning journey! This week, I focused on understanding AWS pricing models, storage services, and hands-on EC2 storage management.
📚 Theory Covered
💰 AWS Pricing
- Understanding the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing model
- Cost optimization fundamentals
🧮 AWS Pricing Calculator
- What it is
- How to estimate cloud infrastructure costs before deployment
🖥️ EC2 Purchasing Options
- ⚡ Spot Instances
- 📌 Reserved Instances
- ⏰ Scheduled Instances
🌐 Elastic IP Address (EIP)
- What an Elastic IP is
- Why static public IPs are important
- Common use cases for Elastic IPs
💾 AWS Storage Services
- Direct Attached Storage (DAS / Instance Store)
- Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
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File Storage
- Amazon EFS
- Amazon FSx
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Object Storage
- Amazon S3
🔹 Deep Dive into Storage
- Instance Store
- Block Storage
- Amazon EBS Storage Types
- Understanding IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) and Throughput
🛠️ Practical Labs Completed
✅ Created an Elastic IP Address and attached it to an EC2 instance.
✅ Created an Amazon EBS Volume, attached it to an EC2 instance, and explored its configuration.
✅ Reviewed and compared Spot, Reserved, and Scheduled EC2 instance purchasing options.
Every lab helps me understand how AWS services work in real-world cloud environments. Looking forward to diving deeper into networking, security, and advanced AWS architecture! 🚀
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