Simplifying Your Cloud Journey
AWS Lambda: An Introduction to Function as a Service In this article, you will learn the fundamentals of AWS Lambda as well as its main benefits, drawbacks, and features. What is AWS Lambda? AWS Lambda is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to run your code without the need for […]
AWS CloudFormation: Simplifying Infrastructure as Code What is CloudFormation? CloudFormation is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables users to create and manage AWS resources using templates. These templates are written in either JSON or YAML and describe the resources that need to be created, along with their properties and configurations. The […]
Infrastructure as Code: Automating Cloud Infrastructure Management “Infrastructure as a Code” (IaC) is gaining popularity in the technological world. But what is IaC exactly, and why is it so crucial in today’s cloud computing environment? You will learn the fundamentals of IaC and how vital they are to DevOps and cloud infrastructure management in this […]
AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Platform as a Service for Cloud Computing What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to deploy, run, and scale web applications and services. It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Elastic […]
What is AWS CloudShell? CloudShell is a browser-based, pre-authenticated shell, you can run AWS CloudShell directly from the AWS Management Console. You can execute AWS CLI commands over AWS services using your selected shell, such as Bash, PowerShell, or Z shell, so no local installation or configuration is required to execute this. A computing environment based on Amazon Linux 2 is created when you launch AWS […]
What is AMAZON EC2 Instance Store? EC2 instance store provides temporary block-level storage for your instance. This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer. It is used for the temporary storage of information, where you need high-performance hardware disk with low latency such as buffers, caches, scratch data, and […]
What is Auto Scaling in AWS? AWS auto scaling is a great feature that provides the ability to monitor your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. With Auto-scaling you can scale out/in resources (servers, database, storage, etc.) automatically based on the pre-defined threshold for the metrics […]
What is AWS shared responsibility model? The Shared Responsibility Model is a structure for cloud security that describes the responsibilities of cloud service providers and consumers. Cloud provider offers to consumers a range of cloud services such as computing, virtual private network, database storage, content delivery, etc. Cloud provider offers the service and consumers makes advantage […]
What is scalability in cloud computing? Scalability is one of the primary attributes to keep in mind, while designing or developing your software product. It is a measure of the system’s ability to efficiently handle the users’ requests with an increase or decrease on demand. Scaling helps to manage a good balance between performance and […]
What is load balancing? Nowadays many applications and websites can serve millions of concurrent requests to users/clients globally. When the amount of network workload increases on an application or website, a single server may fail to support network traffic. To manage the demand of volatile network traffic efficiently, you can use a Load balancer to distribute […]