Understanding the various services in Amazon AWS
AWS comes with a full gamut of services that cover the various aspects useful to build a web application. In this chapter, we will cover some of the most popular ones and ones that would be of use when deploying an AngularJS app; they are as follows:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): EC2 is Amazon's computing service. It allows you to select a combination of CPU power and RAM, and build a web server needed to run your web application.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): The Simple Storage Service is primarily used to store a wide variety of files, mainly static files such as media files, CSS, JS, images, and so on. One can create an S3 bucket and have multiples files and folders within the bucket.
Amazon CloudFront: CloudFront is Amazon's Content Delivery Network (CDN). In most cases, it is linked to an S3 bucket, and the static files from the S3 bucket are delivered via CloudFront.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS): RDS is a ready...