AWS Management & Governance


Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers. Amazon CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to monitor users applications, understand and respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. Amazon CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational […]


AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records activity made on users account and delivers log files to the Amazon S3 bucket. It enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of users AWS account. With AWS CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across the AWS infrastructure. AWS […]


AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create, manage, provision, and update a collection of related AWS resources in an orderly and predictable way. AWS CloudFormation uses templates written in JSON or YAML format to describe the collection of AWS resources (known as a stack), their associated dependencies, and any required […]


AWS Auto Scaling
AWS Auto Scaling is an AWS service that allows users to increase or decrease the number of EC2 instances within their application’s architecture. With Auto Scaling, users can create collections of EC2 instances, called Auto Scaling groups. Users can create these groups from scratch, or from existing EC2 instances that are already in production, and […]


IAM
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers high level data protection when compared to an on-premises environment, at a lower cost. Among various AWS security services, Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the most widely used one. It enables secure control access to AWS resources and services for the customers. Customers can create and manage AWS users […]


AWS Security group
How to I create a security group in AWS? A security group acts as a virtual firewall for customers EC2 instances to control incoming and outgoing traffic. Inbound rules control the incoming traffic to the instance, and outbound rules control the outgoing traffic from your instance. When customers launch an instance, they can specify one or more […]


Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizeable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, […]


Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by allowing users to retrieve information from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. Amazon ElastiCache manages the work involved in […]


Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is the most widely used cloud data warehouse. It is fast, simple and cost-effective to analyze all data using standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools. It allows users to run complex analytic queries against terabytes to petabytes of structured and semi-structured data, using sophisticated query optimization, columnar storage on high-performance storage, […]


Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is designed from the ground-up to give users the performance, scalability, and availability need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads at scale. Amazon DocumentDB implements the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 API by emulating the responses that a MongoDB client expects from a MongoDB server, allowing the existing MongoDB drivers […]


Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible nonrelational database service for any scale. DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling distributed databases to AWS so that they don’t have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup and configuration, throughput capacity planning, replication, software patching, or cluster scaling. Amazon DynamoDB is a […]


Amazon Elastic Compute
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable (scalable) compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. It is the central part of Amazon’s cloud-computing platform known as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Unlike traditional data centers, which lease physical resources, Amazon EC2 clouds lease […]


Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use cloud platform that provides developers compute, storage, and networking capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites, web applications, and databases in the cloud. Lightsail includes everything customers need to launch their project quickly – a virtual machine, a managed database, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static […]


AWS Batch
AWS Batch is a set of batch management capabilities that enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements […]


AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs AWS customers code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources. It can be used to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create, back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security. AWS Lambda can automatically run code in response to […]


AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the fastest and simplest way to get web applications up and running on AWS. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an orchestration service offered by Amazon Web Services for deploying applications which orchestrates various AWS services, including EC2, S3, Simple Notification Service, CloudWatch, autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancers. An Elastic Beanstalk application is […]