Category: Compute One of the advantages of cloud people often talk about is - pay for what you use. AWS gives us the ability to deploy cloud resources for the time we need them and pay just for the period we used those resources. But in any given project, managing resources manually to scale up … Continue reading AWS EC2 Auto Scaling
Month: Feb 2021
AWS CloudFront
Category: Networking Folks working in web development are familiar with CDNs - Content Delivery Networks. CDNs help in a way accelerate the delivery of static content like media, HTML, CSS, JSS files to end-users. This is a network of specialized servers called CDN servers. The network of CDN servers is called CDN. AWS CloudFront is … Continue reading AWS CloudFront
AWS Route 53
Category: Networking Accessing anything on the internet is not as simple as typing a web address and hitting enter. Although you get the desired content in your browser in a fraction of a second, there is a lot that happens even before your actual request is served. The Internet is not magic, and it is … Continue reading AWS Route 53
AWS Config
Category: Monitoring AWS Config plays a major role while managing the compliance of your cloud infrastructure. It helps you keep track of all the configuration changes your infrastructure goes through over a period of time. AWS Config is capable of representing these changes in the form of a timeline. Compliance plays a huge role in … Continue reading AWS Config
AWS CloudWatch
Category: Monitoring Any infrastructure - cloud or on-prem - that hosts and supports a business service at a technical level needs monitoring. Monitoring is an essential part of infrastructure maintenance and helps keep the components healthy. Nowadays we also have proactive solutions in place that raise the flag for upcoming discrepancies. AWS CloudWatch is a … Continue reading AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Category: Monitoring Know how a flight recorder works? Flight recorders are installed in every aircraft to record everything that happens to the systems during a flight. In case of a disaster, these recorders are retrieved and the records are analyzed to determine the root cause of the disaster. Well, not just in case of disasters, … Continue reading AWS CloudTrail
AWS IAM
Category: Security Let’s talk about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). You may ask, isn't this something that needs to be talked about at the beginning? Well, IAM is one of the most important core services which supports AWS security. It is not just an authentication and authorization engine, it serves and interacts with almost … Continue reading AWS IAM
AWS DynamoDB
Category: Database No-SQL databases are non-relational databases and they have a different approach to storing data. Having said that there are similarities and differences between SQL and No-SQL databases as well as they have their own set of pros and cons. In this post, we discuss DynamoDB which is a managed No-SQL database service by … Continue reading AWS DynamoDB
AWS Redshift
Category: Database Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data warehousing solution provided by AWS. It is an OLAP type of database service that runs complex queries across a huge dataset. These services are normally used to create business intelligence reports and in decision-making. Organizations that have large amounts of transactional data can process this data to … Continue reading AWS Redshift
AWS RDS
Category: Database There is a reason why database software exists, and why normal flat file storage is not used to store data that is generally stored in a database. The main reason being the time required to read and write data. Databases provide high read-write performance capabilities as compared to file operations. They are broadly … Continue reading AWS RDS