AWS How To Guides
Amazon Glacier – AWS Exam Tips
Amazon Glacier is a low-cost archival solution from Amazon Web Services which has been optimised to provide durable storage for data archiving and backup. Data can be stored cost effectively for a longer duration. In addition, Glacier is highly scalable and as such...
AWS Shared Security Model and GDPR – Amazon Web Services
As more companies move their business applications to the AWS cloud, their security becomes a critical issue. Unfortunately, many businesses are not aware of their security responsibility in the AWS cloud environment, and hence leave a huge gap in their security...
AWS SysOps Exam Tips – Monitoring and Reporting for RDS
AWS Sysops Administrator – Monitoring RDS A primary task for an AWS Sysops Administrator is to monitor the core services on the platform. Amazon RDS is one such service that needs to be managed and monitored. Amazon recommends that you create a monitoring plan to...
AWS Organizations and Consolidated Billing
For companies, organizations, and individuals with multiple AWS accounts, managing these accounts can be quite challenging and expensive. Fortunately, Amazon has made it easy with the AWS Organizations which helps to handle such accounts in a scalable way. What is AWS...
Amazon CloudFormation Exam Tips
With Amazon CloudFormation you can design and deploy a collection of related AWS resources that can then be customised into a template for repeat deployment. You can then provision and/or update your resources in an orderly fashion with predictable outcomes. After the...
AMAZON WEB SERVICES GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
Datacenters are crucial for any cloud infrastructure provider, and Amazon AWS, being a global public cloud provider, is constantly building them around the world. Amazon Web Services serves millions of customers around the world and as a result, has to set up a global...
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) Exam Tips
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that coordinates and manages the delivery of sending messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. In Amazon SNS, there are two types of clients—publishers and subscribers—also referred to as producers...
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Exam Tips – IaaS Academy
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple application components, each performing a discrete function which improves scalability and reliability and is best practice design for modern applications. ...
Amazon VPC Flow Logs Exam Tips
VPC Flow Logs You can use VPC Flow Logs to monitor traffic entering and leaving your Virtual Private Cloud. You can monitor VPC, a subnet, or an Elastic Network Interface (ENI), and relevant network traffic can be logged to CloudWatch Logs for storage and analysis. ...
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster. Clusters can be on serverless architecture which is managed by Amazon ECS when you use...