Cloudy Days Brief Overview of the Amazon Web Services

The Services

!   EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud - Virtual Servers and Networks for your web servers to live in (IAAS)

!   S3 - Simple Storage Service and CloudFront - Globally available storage to keep things like website images, or files needed for configuration of servers

!   Elastic Beanstalk - Somewhere between EC2 and Heroku in terms of configuration and management

The Services

!   Route 53 - Managed DNS, point your domain name at your AWS stacks

!   SNS - Simple Notification Service - Make API calls to send text messages, emails, etc...

!   RDS - Relational Database Service, your ticket to MySql made easy, automated backups etc…

! Elasticache - Managed cached service, basically managed Redis or Memcache [Key/Value quick access]

The Services

Lots more: Big data, machine learning, transcoding videos

The Benefits

!  API's drive infrastructure.

!  Infrastructure as code.

!  Everything in source control.

!  No more “artisan” infrastructure.

The Benefits

!  "Limitless” resources

!  Scale your services as demand grows, the concept of "Elastic"

!  No longer waiting months, or weeks for infrastructure

The Benefits !  Global presence anywhere in the world

!  Redundancy and speed

Conclusion

!  If you are going to be a Dev, learn some Cloud-Ops