Demystifying AWS: Navigating the Complex World of Services

🔍AWS offers a wide range of services, making it challenging to choose the right one for your needs.

🔑Understanding a standard three-tier application architecture is key to comprehending AWS services.

🚀EC2 provides flexible virtual machine rentals for various backend services.

💡AWS Lambda offers a serverless infrastructure option for deploying functions without worrying about infrastructure management.

🌐API Gateway provides additional functionality on top of load balancers, such as throttling and authorization.

Which service can I use for DNS in AWS?

—Amazon Route 53 is the recommended service for DNS configuration in AWS.

What are the options for load balancers in AWS?

—AWS Elastic Load Balancer provides two variations: Application Load Balancer (L7 layer) and Network Load Balancer (L4 layer).

What are the compute options for a web backend layer in AWS?

—AWS EC2 offers virtual machine rentals, while AWS Lambda provides a serverless infrastructure option.

What is Amazon Aurora?

—Amazon Aurora is a fully managed RDS database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

What additional functionality does API Gateway provide?

—API Gateway offers features like API throttling, authorization, and model validation.

00:00Learning AWS can be intimidating due to the vast number of services available.

02:00The standard three-tier application architecture is instrumental in understanding AWS services.

03:00EC2 provides flexible virtual machine rentals for various backend services.

04:30AWS Lambda offers a serverless infrastructure option for deploying functions without worrying about infrastructure management.

06:30API Gateway provides additional functionality on top of load balancers, such as throttling and authorization.