AWS components

AWS offers a variety of infrastructural services. The list of AWS services is a continuously growing list of services with several of them in preview mode at any given time. In this section, we will describe some of the main AWS services.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides compute capacity in the AWS cloud. You can bundle the operating system, application software, and associated configuration settings into an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You can then use these AMIs to provision multiple virtualized instances as well as decommission them using web service calls. EC2 instances can be resized and the number of instances scaled up or down to match your requirements or demand. These instances can be launched in one or more geographical locations or regions, and Availability Zones (AZs). Each region comprises of several AZs at distinct locations, connected by low latency networks in the same region.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon...