AWS - A Bird's-eye View
22 Jan 2020AWS is a huge and complex place - this post aims to do nothing more than provide an overview with short and simple descriptions of some of the services I use and find relevant right now.
| Service | Full name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ACM | AWS Certificate Manager | Issue and manage certificates to set up HTTPS on your domain names |
| EB | Elastic Beanstalk | Deploy and scale web applications and services |
| EC2 | Elastic Compute Cloud | The virtual servers that almost everything on AWS runs on sooner or later |
| ECR | Elastic Container Registry | Upload your Docker containers, similar to DockerHub |
| ECS | Elastic Container Service | Deploy and orchestrate Docker containers with Amazon's own service (free) |
| EKS | Elastic Kubernetes Service | Deploy and orchestrate Docker containers with Kubernetes (expensive) |
| ELB | Elastic Load Balancing | Manage load balancers that route requests from the internet to your instances |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management | Manage permissions to AWS |
| RDS | Relational Database Service | Run SQL databases |
| Route 53 | Route 53 | DNS - Manage domain names |
| S3 | Simple Storage Service | Store and host files |
| VPC | Virtual Private Cloud | The networking layer for EC2. Deals with subnets and Security Groups. |