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Discovering AWS: Deployment & Management

Cloud FormationCloud Formation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the...

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Discovering AWS: Networking

Before to describe the different networking services in AWS, it is important to clarify that AWS doesn’t support Multicast. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)It enables you to create a private network fully-managed in the same way you can do it in your datacenter. You have complete control over your virtual networking...

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Discovering AWS: Application Services

Simple Workflow Service (SWF)It is a task coordinator and state management service for your applications in the Cloud. It has Deciders and Workers that we could configure as we need. SWF ensures tasks are executed in a reliable way, in order and without duplicate them. Deciders and Workers run in your infrastructure and SWF manage the state. CloudSearchIt...

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Discovering AWS: Database

Relational Database Service (RDS)It provides a SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL server, installed, configured and ready to use. AWS will manage the infrastructure: they will install the patches, execute the backups, resizing, availability (they will manage the failover, for example), etc. And our DBAs will manage the databases.DynamoDBIt...

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Discovering AWS: Storage

Simple Storage Service (S3)It is not a file system, it is an object store. It has an unlimited store capacity, it is highly scalable and available, and exists inside a region, this means that object are not moved outside of the region unless you specify it. By default, all objects are replicated. All object exists in three different locations....

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