Amazon Web Services offers a wide range of services, other than EC2, to host our applications in a most advanced and secured fashion. In this chapter, we will be discussing a few of the key services required for deploying a production-class application:
- Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS): A hosted relational database service from AWS in an isolated environment. It provides several database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Route53: A scalable domain name system (DNS) by AWS.
- Simple Storage Service (S3): An object storage service by AWS. S3 provides high durability, compliance capabilities, and security. It is widely used for creating CDN backends, backups, and storing log files, as well as hosting static websites.
- Lambda: AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless platform for cloud computing. It's a computing service...