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

AWS Lambda: Write Serverless Code

AWS Lambda is a Serverless Compute service, and it allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You can upload your code, and the service runs and scales your code, including setting up automatic triggers to call other AWS services.  Convenient, there is no new language to learn; you can run code in one … Continue reading AWS Lambda: Write Serverless Code

Amazon EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides secure, elastic compute capacity (virtual servers) in the cloud.  You can think of it like you are renting a piece of a huge server where you can spin up your own independent instances catered to your specific needs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRBftzZsQo Features With Amazon EC2, you don't have to spend time … Continue reading Amazon EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Distribute Traffic

Elastic Load Balancing automatically "balances" incoming application traffic "loads" across multiple "targets" so that no one resource becomes over burdened.  The targets can be EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, and can handle varying loads of application traffic in a single or multiple Availability Zones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpHLRc4Qt1E By distributing incoming traffic to multiple targets, Elastic Load … Continue reading AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Distribute Traffic

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Easily Deploy/Scale Apps

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a quick, free, and simple way to deploy, monitor, and scale applications by automating deployment of resources using code. All you have to do is pick a few settings and upload your code, and Elastic Beanstalk handles everything else, like load balancing, provisioning, auto scaling, and app health monitoring for you. … Continue reading AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Easily Deploy/Scale Apps