This is amazon’s datawarehousing service

3Companies often wants to analyse huge amount of data obtain statistics/metrics, identify trends, or find meaningful insights. These can then be used to influence business decisions. All this data crunching will require a lot of computing resources. One way to do this is to use a software like Hadoop to […]

In companies you can document business processes in the form of swim-lane diagrams. Some lanes requires human interaction (e.g. clicking the “approve” button), whereas other lanes are automated. For example you went on a business meeting to another city and you want to claim for hotel/travel expenses. Then you submit […]

If you have incoming work requests, then you can queue them up if the existing EC2 instances are pre-occupied, rather than auto-scale up your EC2 resource. This service works by a new message (in the form of a json file) being created by each incoming work request.  This json file […]

ELB is used for distributing traffic to a group of servers. Hence a group of servers shares the same load so that each server doesn’t get overwhelmed. It commonly uses the round robin approach to distribute work amongst the servers. However this approach can be adjusted by enabling “sticky sessions”. […]

EC2 is arguably the most important service available on the AWS platform,  EC2 is used for creating VMs on the AWS platform. These vms are referred to as EC2 “instances“. There are three pricing models available under EC2:   Pricing On-Demand Instances: This lets you pay for computing capacity by […]

AWS CSA (associate level) – Amazaon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect You can book this exam at: http://aws.amazon.com/certification After getting the AWS CSA (associate level), you can then move onto getting the AWS CSA (professional level) certification https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english https://read.acloud.guru/what-you-need-to-get-aws-certified-5937e613b10f#.ddmu8gmn0 https://cloudacademy.com/quiz/ Core Architecture Best Practices You want to design your product […]

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AWS in it’s physical form is made up of a large number of data centers across the world. These data centers are independent of each other, meaning that if one data center goes down, it will not impact the others. A data center is essentially a really big build that […]

      All the AWS services are grouped into the following catagories: http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf Here’s the list, Compute Amazon EC2 (elastic cloud computing). This has these key features: Auto Scaling Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Storage and Content Delivery Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volumes – these are network attached block storage […]