Lesson Recap

• Server-based Services
• DynamoDB
• S3
• Compute Services

In this lesson, we looked at a variety of AWS data storage and compute options. AWS provides many options. Thinking through your use case, usage patterns, cost constraints and availability requirements are the key to successfully choosing the right services.

Lesson Objectives

You will be able to:

• Take advantage of different high availability options on AWS
• Create multi-AZ services
• Create multi-region services
• Identify what availability options exist for which AWS services
• Take advantage of resilient features in AWS services

Glossary

• Active/Active: A system that is running actively in multiple instances, typically in a distributed manner where complete functionality is available in more than one area.
• Snapshot: A complete copy of a dataset at a specific point in time.
• Server-based Services: Services that are existing applications that AWS provides as "managed services" and run on individual server instances.
• DynamoDB: AWS developed non-relational database
• DynamoDB Global Tables: Multi-Region DynamoDB Tables.
• S3: AWS developed object store that can store an unlimited amount of data.
• Compute Services: AWS services that provide generic compute capacity.

Further Reading

• Redis
• ElasticSearch
• MongoDB
• DynamoDB Pricing Models
• Amazon Prime Day 2019
• S3 Pricing
• WannaCry randsomware attack
• CloudFormation
• Terraform