Amazon Elastic Container Service: Container Orchestration

Amazon Elastic Container Service, or Amazon ECS, is a fully-managed container orchestration/management service on AWS. It helps you deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications efficiently. https://youtu.be/FnFvpIsBrog Amazon ECS can launch containers on supporting AWS compute services like: AWS Fargate AWS Regions AWS Local Zones AWS Wavelength AWS Outposts ECS Anywhere Resources Amazon Elastic Container Service … Continue reading Amazon Elastic Container Service: Container Orchestration

Amazon Direct Connect: Dedicated network connections

Amazon Direct Connect "directly connects" your network to AWS Cloud for consistent, low-latency performance by bypassing the public internet. It helps to reduce bandwidth costs, and secures your data as it moves between your on-premises infrastructure and AWS Cloud. https://youtu.be/y4rIwSbdlS0 You can utilize Amazon Direct Connect to connect multiple offices or data centers, or to … Continue reading Amazon Direct Connect: Dedicated network connections

AWS Global Accelerator: Improve access speed

AWS Global Accelerator is a network acceleration service that improves your public application's availability, performance, and security by routing your customer traffic through the congestion-free AWS global network instead of the public internet. You can visualize it as hopping onto the HOV lane during a traffic jam and reaching your destination more efficiently and safely. … Continue reading AWS Global Accelerator: Improve access speed

AWS Config: Resource configuration auditor

As the name suggests, AWS Config monitors and manages your AWS config(urations) to help you easily evaluate whether your service configurations match your needs and compliance requirements. It assesses, audits, and evaluates resource configuration changes of your resources to help you stay compliant to organization policies. https://youtu.be/X_fznJtSyV8 When AWS Config notices a configuration update, it … Continue reading AWS Config: Resource configuration auditor

Amazon GuardDuty: Continuous Threat Detection

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS Cloud accounts for compromised accounts, abnormal behaviors, and malware using anomaly detection, machine learning, behavioral modeling, and threat intelligence feeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocZjGirQT9A Amazon GuardDuty helps to mitigate threats to your infrastructure with automated remediation or prevention with AWS Lambda. It automatically analyzes AWS workloads, … Continue reading Amazon GuardDuty: Continuous Threat Detection

Amazon EFS: Elastic File System

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a scalable, elastic, cloud-native file system for Linux OS. It's managed file storage for Amazon EC2. https://youtu.be/AvgAozsfCrY Features Amazon EFS is elastic, so it automatically grows and shrinks as storage demands go up and down.  It's a fully managed service, which means you can create or configure Amazon EFS … Continue reading Amazon EFS: Elastic File System

Setting Up a Static Website on S3 with Route 53 and CloudFront

Set up a static website on AWS using S3, Route 53, CloudFront, and Certificate Manager Here, we'll set up a static website (think HTML and CSS and no moving parts) hosted on S3, which can be accessed by your own domain, domain.com, protected with SSL (think https:// instead of http://). Anyone who types in domain.com … Continue reading Setting Up a Static Website on S3 with Route 53 and CloudFront

AWS Snow Family: Data Storage, Migration, and Computation

AWS Snow Family is a "family" of AWS services that provide data storage, migration, and compute resources. It is made up of AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile. Ever imagined yourself hiking up Mount Everest or trekking deep deep into the Amazon rainforest and doing some data crunching? No? Well, with the AWS Snow … Continue reading AWS Snow Family: Data Storage, Migration, and Computation

AWS Storage Gateway: Connect On-Prem with Cloud

In the most basic sense, Amazon Storage Gateway connects your On-Premises storage with AWS Cloud storage.  It is a cost-effective way to securely store data in the AWS cloud. It will seamlessly back up your On-Premises data to Amazon S3.  You pay as you go, paying only for the storage you utilize. https://youtu.be/XXQNXwx8nfE Storage Gateway: a Virtual … Continue reading AWS Storage Gateway: Connect On-Prem with Cloud