AWS VPC

Category: Network AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) provides a networking and security layer for the deployed AWS resources like EC2, RDS, and similar other resources. VPCs form the basis of any cloud architecture. By default, they are isolated from other AWS services or networks. Compared to the real-world networks, AWS VPCs abstract most of the …

AWS S3

Category: Storage Amazon provides object storage service in the form of S3 - Simple Storage Service. This service is used to store data in the form of objects or files. It is very easy to use S3, but at the same time looking at the number of configuration options provided by Amazon it can get …

AWS Elastic Block Store

Category: Storage While assembling a PC from scratch, we connect various components to build a working machine. One of the components we add for storage is SSD/HDD. AWS Elastic Block Store is the same for virtual machines/EC2 instances. Think of this as a removable hard disk for VMs. AWS EBS provides a way to add …

AWS EC2

Category: Compute AWS Elastic Compute Cloud, more commonly known as EC2 is one of the core services offered by AWS. At a very basic level, EC2 are virtual machines. These virtual machines can be used as servers of various kinds - web servers, application servers, CDNs, jump servers, etc. Cloud computing offers various advantages and …