My AWS Cloud Journey: Module 3 - AWS Global Infrastructure

Section 1 - AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS Regions:

• North America:
  • US East (N. Virginia) – us-east-1
  • US East (Ohio) – us-east-2
  • US West (N. California) – us-west-1
  • US West (Oregon) – us-west-2
  • Canada (Central) – ca-central-1
• South America:
  • South America (São Paulo) – sa-east-1
• Europe:
  • EU (Ireland) – eu-west-1
  • EU (London) – eu-west-2
  • EU (Paris) – eu-west-3
  • EU (Frankfurt) – eu-central-1
  • EU (Stockholm) – eu-north-1
• Asia Pacific:
  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo) – ap-northeast-1
  • Asia Pacific (Seoul) – ap-northeast-2
  • Asia Pacific (Osaka) – ap-northeast-3
  • Asia Pacific (Mumbai) – ap-south-1
  • Asia Pacific (Singapore) – ap-southeast-1
  • Asia Pacific (Sydney) – ap-southeast-2
• Middle East:
  • Middle East (Bahrain) – me-south-1
• Africa:
  • Africa (Cape Town) – af-south-1

Factors for selecting an AWS Region

1. Data governance, legal requirements
2. Proximity to customers (latency)
3. Services available within the region
4. Costs

Availability Zones:

AWS Data Centers:

Points of Presence:

AWS Infrastructure Features:

1. Elasticity and scalability
2. Fault-tolerance
3. High availability

Section 2 - AWS Services and Service Categories

1. Compute
2. Cost management
3. Database
4. Management and governance
5. Networking and content delivery
6. Security, identity, and Compliance
7. Storage

Storage service category

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): is an object storage service that offers scalability, data availability, security and performance
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS): is a high-performance block storage designed for use with Amazon EC2 for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads.
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS): provides a scalable fully managed elastic network file system (NFS) for use within AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.
• Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier: a secure, durable and extremely low-cost AWS S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup.

Compute service category

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): provides resizable compute capacity as virtual machines in the cloud.
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: enables automatic addition or removal of EC2 instances according to predefined conditions
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): is a highly scalable, highly performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers.
• Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR): is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy Docker container images.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk: is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services on familiar servers such as Apache and Microsoft IIS.
• AWS Lambda: enables users to run code without provisioning or managing servers.
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS): makes it easy to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications that user Kubernetes on AWS.
• AWS Fargate: is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows users to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.

Database service category

• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS): is an easy to setup, operate and scale relational database in the cloud.
• Amazon Aurora: is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database. It is set up to be five-times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard Postgre databases.
• Amazon Redshift: enables users to run analytic queries against petabytes of data that are stored locally on Amazon.
• Amazon DynamoDB: is a fully managed key value and document NoSQL database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching

Networking and content delivery services category

• Amazon VPC: enables users to provision logically isolated sections of the AWS Cloud to launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define.
• Elastic Load Balancing: automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses and lambda functions.
• Amazon CloudFront: is a fast content delivery network (CDN) that securely delivers data, videos, applications, application programming interfaces (APIs), to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds.
• AWS Transit Gateway: enables customers to connect their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds and their on-premises networks to a single centrally managed gateway.
• Amazon Route 53: is a scalable cloud domain name system web service designed to give users a scalable cloud domain name system web service designed to give them a reliable way to route end users to the internet applications.
• AWS Direct Connect: provides a way to establish a dedicated private network connection from data centers or offices to AWS.
• AWS VPN: provides a secure private tunnel for networks or device to the AWS global network.