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Waris Khan
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🚀 AWS Journey - Day 6 & Day 7 ☁️

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)
  • File Storage

    • Amazon EFS
    • Amazon FSx
  • 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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