Basic concepts of AWS services

What is ECS?

• Elastic Container Service
• Highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service
• Let you host your services in serverless infrastructure
• Fargate - Containers without servers
• Has three main components:
  •  Elastic Container Registry
  •  Clusters
  •  Task Definitions

What is S3?

• Simple Storage Service
• Can be use to host a static website

What is Cloudfront?

• A content delivery network (CDN), that uses a network of edge location to  cache copies of content.
• We will use this to serve Angular application from S3.
• Benefits
  • improves load time
  • eliminates single point of failure
  • scalable
  • cost effective

What is Codepipeline?

• A continuous delivery service to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.
• Supports zero downtime deployment.

More...

• Security Groups
• Cloud watch
• Relational Database Service - RDS
• load balancer
• ...