amazon elastic compute cloud / a machine image

t2/t3 : does the basic job

m5/m6 : - - - balanced cpu and mem

c5/c6 : computer optimized

r5/r6 : mem-opti

: elastic load balancer

“Do you want a small hummingbird (t2.micro), a balanced horse (m5.large), or a muscle-dragon (c6.4xlarge)?”

u would always have the option to upgrade to more power

ssh - networks protocol which acts as a secure way to access remote comp’s

elastic block stores

elastic block shelf

subnets: ranges of ip’s

AZ’s : availability zones

An Elastic IP acted like a permanent address so visitors always found the shop.

He knew that in this magical kingdom, compute power was elastic, storage was persistent, and security was in his hands.

• Locally accessed in CDN terms just means: the CDN routes your request to the nearest edge server to you, so it feels local, but it’s still coming from the internet, not your own machine.

cloudwatch: just a monitoring system for aws rsc

These are the basic services from aws which are needed for a high level project