S3 is an object based storage solution for AWS. You can upload an unlimited amount of objects in any format like pictures, text files, videos, or binary files. But S3 is not suitable to install an operating system or a database on it. Each file can have up to 5 TB in size, without exceptions! …
CloudFormation can be simply defined by infrastructure as code. You define the AWS services which have to be created and configured in a written form inside a file. Then you upload the file to AWS and it will be executed. This will speed up the whole creation process and provides consistency. Amazon won’t charge you …
Every time you are dealing with sensitive data you should think about encrypting it! Therefore AWS provides a service called Key Management Service or KMS. KMS makes it easy to create and control encryption keys used to encrypt your data and view your existing keys in a single dashboard. Inside AWS exists a broad integration …
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DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL Database. It provides consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Data gets stored in a key-value based model and supports the document formats JSON, HTML and XML. DynamoDB is also serverless and integrates very well with AWS Lambda functions. So if you are developing a serverless application, DynamoDB …
Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows to run your application code in AWS without provisioning any servers. Lambda takes care of everything required to run your code, including the runtime environment. It provides typical AWS features like auto-scaling and high availability and it’s supported languages are: Basically you just need to upload your …
Cloud storage is typically more reliable, scalable and secure than traditional on-premises storage systems. AWS offers object storage, file storage, block storage and data transfer services. In this article you will first learn an approach to get a better understanding about the requirements of your data storage service and afterwards you will have a first …
Servers, the heart of our modern connected world. Computers which are opened up to the internet, allowing to communicate with people or other machines. They are serving websites, scripts or databases. Typically servers are stored in huge data centres which are owned by big companies for their own purpose or for renting them to the …
The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is an open source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in your command-line shell. With minimal configuration, the AWS CLI allows you to start running commands that implement functionality equivalent to that provided by the browser-based AWS Management Console from the command prompt …
“Who am I, and if so, how many?” The philosopher Richard David Precht needed hundreds of pages in his book of the same name to at least roughly answer these questions. With Identity and Access Management (IAM), there is no time for such roundabout actions. Organisations need to validate digital identities promptly and unequivocally to …
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Who Uses Cloud Computing? …