In this chapter, we will an cover overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Networking services in order to get started quickly and get an idea about key services and key concepts.
To understand AWS, it is better to have a core understanding of what exactly it is and then go for AWS-related topics, so it is easy to understand.
Cloud computing, cloud service models, cloud deployment models, and cloud characteristics based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition will help us understand the core of cloud computing. This chapter will cover how we can categorize different services of AWS considering cloud service models and cloud deployment models.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics in detail:
- Core concepts of AWS
- Regions and Availability Zones
- Security and compliance
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- Security groups
- An overview of networking services
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS Direct Connect
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Auto Scaling
- Billing Dashboard
- AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculators
- Architecture—compute and networking services for sample application
