AWS is a complex platform with dozens of services available to us. This project will touch on only the part required to deploy Notes as a Docker swarm on EC2 instances. In this section, let's talk about the infrastructure and AWS services we'll put to use.
An AWS VPC is what it sounds like—namely, a service within AWS where you build your own private cloud service infrastructure. The AWS team designed the VPC service to look like something that you would construct in your own data center, but implemented on the AWS infrastructure. This means that the VPC is a container to which everything else we'll discuss is attached.
The AWS infrastructure is spread across the globe into what AWS calls regions. For example, us-west-1 refers to Northern California, us-west-2 refers to Oregon, and eu-central-1 refers to Frankfurt. For production deployment, it is recommended to use a region nearer your customers, but for experimentation...
