Vantage point for AWS landscape

Have you recently admired AWS cloud platform capabilities? Are you appealed by the pay-as-you-use pricing model? Are you looking forward to hosting your products and services on AWS? Then you should also be prepared to spend hours figuring out why you are paying that penny! Today AWS offers 200+ Managed IAAS services and each of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …