Concepts and Components

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Concepts and Components

Region

A geographically distinct area such as London or Dublin.

Availability Zones

There are 2 or more availability zones per region. These are essentially data centres geographically placed to make sure if one goes down the other is far enough away to prevent downtime.

Edge Locations

Are a way to cache content around the world.

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AWS Services

Compute

EC2

Elastic Compute Clud - virtual machines.

EC2 Container Service

Docker containers

Beanstalk

Will provision server setups.

Lambda

The code you upload and it will run when triggered.

Lightsail

VPS service. Provision with server, fixed IP and RDP/SSH access with management service.

Batch

Batch computing.