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Use web services to build scalable and sophisticated applications/infrastructures

A region is a geographic location that contains multiple Avalability zones (AZ)

Each AZ consist of clustered data centers

Each AZ is isolated from failures in other Availability Zones

70 Edge Locations

Choice for a region is guided by
Cost

Legislation

Speed / Latency

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Virtualized servers in Amazon's data centers

Reduce time to boot a new server

Deploy across regions for reliability

Resizable compute capacity

Complete control of computing resources

Pay only for capacity that you actually use

Data about your instance

Can be used to configure or manage a running instance

Is available from the running instance

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html

Can be passed to perform automated configuration tasks

Executed after instance startup

Linux script / Windows batch

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Provision a private/isolated virtual network

Subnets define a range of IP adresses in your VPC

Each subnet resides within one AZ

Private subnet won't be accessible over Internet

Public subnet is accessed overInternet

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Security Group : Act like a firewall controlling the inbound/outbound traffic at instance level

Network ACLs : Act like a firewall controlling the inbound/outbound traffic at subnet level

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

"Storage for the internet"

Store any amount of data, anytime, anywhere <==> Highly scalable, reliable, fast and durable

HTTP Access
REST and SOAP APIs