Direct Connect Some companies might need to transfer data from their data centers to AWS. Using a normal internet connection can raise some problems: Internet-based connections might be inconsistent over time: there is no guarantee that data transferred from point A to point B will not change the routing. Real-time applications might not behave as... Continue Reading →

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows us to define our virtual network inside the cloud. To properly use EC2 instances we must have a VPC configured. AWS already comes with one by default, allowing users to launch an EC2 instance without having to configure anything else. It comes with internet access enabled, which makes possible... Continue Reading →

The AWS Relational Database Service, best known as RDS, is a service made to operate and scale relational databases in the cloud. As we saw in the last post an EC2 instance is a virtual machine on the cloud and can host any application the user wants to. When we’re thinking about databases on the... Continue Reading →

Amazon Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, is a service on AWS to store data on the internet. Buckets Buckets are the containers to store data on S3. They can be viewed as a root “folder” responsible for store every object data that is uploaded. Buckets are useful to easily identify accounts storage usage,... Continue Reading →

IAM, abbreviation to Identity & Access Management, is the service used to create new accounts and manage authorization on AWS resources. It is considered a global service inside AWS, which means that changes made inside IAM will be available in all regions at the same time. To manage what a user can or cannot do... Continue Reading →