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๐Ÿš€ AWS Journey - Day 6 & Day 7 โ˜๏ธ

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.

๐Ÿ“š Theory Covered

๐Ÿ’ฐ AWS Pricing

  • Understanding the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing model
  • Cost optimization fundamentals

๐Ÿงฎ AWS Pricing Calculator

  • What it is
  • How to estimate cloud infrastructure costs before deployment

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ EC2 Purchasing Options

  • โšก Spot Instances
  • ๐Ÿ“Œ Reserved Instances
  • โฐ Scheduled Instances

๐ŸŒ Elastic IP Address (EIP)

  • What an Elastic IP is
  • Why static public IPs are important
  • Common use cases for Elastic IPs

๐Ÿ’พ AWS Storage Services

  • Direct Attached Storage (DAS / Instance Store)
  • Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
  • File Storage

    • Amazon EFS
    • Amazon FSx
  • Object Storage

    • Amazon S3

๐Ÿ”น Deep Dive into Storage

  • Instance Store
  • Block Storage
  • Amazon EBS Storage Types
  • Understanding IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) and Throughput

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Practical Labs Completed

โœ… Created an Elastic IP Address and attached it to an EC2 instance.

โœ… Created an Amazon EBS Volume, attached it to an EC2 instance, and explored its configuration.

โœ… 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! ๐Ÿš€

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