Introduction

Introduction to AWS

• Built in 'Virtual Private Cloud'
  • Redundancy via x2 Availability Zones
  • EC2 (compute) in each AZ
  • Amazon RDS in each AZ
• ELB (elastic load balancer) to distribute traffic between EC2 instances
• EC2 Auto scaling to scale out / in EC2 instances
• AWS IAM (Identity Access Management) for security
• S3 / DDB outside of AZs
• Monitoring with CloudWatch