Intro To Cloud On AWS
1. Hierarchy in AWS
The way AWS is laid out...
Availability Zones, Regions, Edge
- A region is a collection of AZ's
- An AZ is within a region
- Some regions have ~3 AZ's, some have more
- Edge locations
// TODO: 👷♀ How many AZ's does each region have? // TODO: 👷♀ Is an edge within an AZ or just a region?
3 Reasons For Choosing a Region
- Latency to the user — You need to be located closer to the user.
- Data laws — You have legal requirements that means you need to be in a given region.
// TODO: 👷♀ What's the third reason!?
Cloud Concepts
6 Advantages Of Cloud
- Trade capital expense for variable expense
- Economies of scale
- Stop guessing about capacity (on demand)
- Increase speed and agility
- Stop spending money running data centers
- Global in minutes
3 Types of Cloud Computing
- IAAS
- PAAS
- SAAS
3 Types of Cloud
- Public: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Hybrid: Mixture of public and private
- Private Cloud: Your datacenter