DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that provides consistent, fast, scalable and reliable access to the fully managed database in the cloud. It supports both the key-value and document data models widely used in e-commerce, IoT, mobile and any internet scale application. DynamoDB stores the data on SSD storage and replicates it across 3 availability zones. It … Continue reading AWS – DynamoDB
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AWS – Simple Storage Service (S3) and Storage Gateway
Simple Storage Service There are 2 types of storage- Object Based - Used for storing files like photographs, videos, documents etc. Block Based - Used for database storage, installing operating system etc. You can read more about cloud storage in my post on Cloud Storage Types – Object, Block and File AWS Simple Storage Services … Continue reading AWS – Simple Storage Service (S3) and Storage Gateway
AWS – EC2, EBS and ELB
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is a web service which provides re-sizable computing resources that could scale out or scale down very easily based on the varying work load. At a very basic level it's nothing but a virtual machine running as a guest on the host machine with the help of a hypervisor. Typically it … Continue reading AWS – EC2, EBS and ELB
AWS – Identity and Access Management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is widely used in most of the enterprises to authenticate and authorize the users to grant access to applications and systems that supports various functions within the organization. It is one of the basic components when it comes to enterprise security and defense in-depth principles that organizations adopt to protect … Continue reading AWS – Identity and Access Management