CloudFront is a content delivery network, consisting of distributed servers that deliver webpages and other web content with low latency and high data transfer speed. This gets accomplished by caching the web content at an edge location, a user will then request the content at his closest edge location. If…

Elastic Beanstalk (EB) supports developers in building and configuring the underlying infrastructure for web applications. Developers just need to upload code and the rest of the things such as capacity provisioning, building and configuring AWS resources such as EC2 instances, ELB, Auto Scaling, and application health monitoring will be taken…

S3 is an object based storage solution for AWS. You can upload an unlimited amount of objects in any format like pictures, text files, videos, or binary files. But S3 is not suitable to install an operating system or a database on it. Each file can have up to 5…

CloudFormation can be simply defined by infrastructure as code. You define the AWS services which have to be created and configured in a written form inside a file. Then you upload the file to AWS and it will be executed. This will speed up the whole creation process and provides…

Every time you are dealing with sensitive data you should think about encrypting it! Therefore AWS provides a service called Key Management Service or KMS. KMS makes it easy to create and control encryption keys used to encrypt your data and view your existing keys in a single dashboard. Inside…

DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL Database. It provides consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Data gets stored in a key-value based model and supports the document formats JSON, HTML and XML. DynamoDB is also serverless and integrates very well with AWS Lambda functions. …

Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows to run your application code in AWS without provisioning any servers. Lambda takes care of everything required to run your code, including the runtime environment. It provides typical AWS features like auto-scaling and high availability and it’s supported languages are: Java Go …

Cloud storage is typically more reliable, scalable and secure than traditional on-premises storage systems. AWS offers object storage, file storage, block storage and data transfer services.

Servers, the heart of our modern connected world. Computers which are opened up to the internet, allowing to communicate with people or other machines. They are serving websites, scripts or databases. Typically servers are stored in huge data centres which are owned by big companies for their own purpose or…