How to navigate the AWS Management Console

AWS Management Console : AWS services grouped by categories.

commonly used categories :

• Compute
  • EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) - web service that proivdes secure resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
  • Lamda - serverless compute service.
• Storage
  • S3(Simple Storage Service) - most popular; object storage service.
• Databases
  • RDS(Relational Data Service) - relational database in the cloud.
  • DynamoDB - non-relational database; key-value and document databse. high speed.
• Networking
  • VPC(Virtual Private Cloud) - able to launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network.
  • CloudFront - Content Delivery Network(CDN). Delivers data, videos app, and APIs to customers. High transfer speeds.
  • Route53 - cloud Doman Name System(DNS). Traslate names like www.example.com to IP addresses.
• Security
  • IAM(Identity and Access Management) - manage access to AWS services and resources securely.

AWS Region

• Geographical area where AWS data centers house the servers.
• Choose the region that is closest to the customers.