* AWS - AMAZON WEB SERVICES - 1. Largest public cloud computing platform (~ Number# 1 position in the market currently) 2. Started - 2006 & Certification started - 2013 * AWS Certifications - Foundational Certification: 1. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Associate-Level Certification: 2. AWS Certified Developer – Associate 3. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate 4. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Professional-level Certification: 5. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 6. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Specialty Certification: 7. AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty 8. AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty 9. AWS Certified Security - Specialty * For more details on certifications - https://techgurujisam.blogspot.com/2018/06/aws-certifications.html
Amazon EC2 are hosted in multiple locations world wide. These locations are composed of Regions and Availability Zones. * Regions – A Geographical Area that scale the world. Each region is completely independent to each other. This is to achieve highest fault tolerance and stability. 1. Resources aren’t replicated across regions unless you do so specifically. 2. Data transfers between regions are chargeable. * Availability Zone – Physical Data center within a Region. 1. Each Regions has multiple (A minimum of 2) isolated locations known as Availability Zones. i.e. 2 or More Physical Data centers. 2. Each Availability Zone inside a region is isolated but connected through low-latency (Computer network that is optimized to process a very high volume of data messages with minimal delay) links. * Edge Location – Edge Locations are consumable locations for AWS Services. You cannot place a resource in Edge location, however you can only consume services available i