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a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com
Operate from 11 geographical regions across the world
Most well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3
As of December 2014, Amazon Web Services operated an estimated 1.4 Million servers across 28 availability zones
allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications
a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform
user can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed
pay by the hour for active servers !!
a logically isolated section of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
they can assign IP numbers of their choosing from one or more subnets
which AWS resources are public facing and which are not
much more granular control over security
automatically distributes your incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances
It detects unhealthy instances and reroutes traffic to healthy instances until the unhealthy instances have been restored
acts as a firewall allowing you to choose which protocols and ports are open to EC2 instance
a PaaS (Platform as a Service)
allows users to create applications and push them to a definable set of AWS services
Supported applications and software stacks include:
a distributed relational database service
aimed at simplifying the set up, operation, and scaling a relational database
Complex administration processes like patching the database software, backing up databases and enabling point-in-time recovery are managed automatically
a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud