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Networking is an important building block in AWS that nearly every AWS Cloud user will use. Learn about Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and get step-by-step instructions on how to deploy a VPC in AWS Cloud.
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In the previous post in this series, we looked at foundations of AWS infrastructure. In this post, we start to focus on the AWS services you use as a customer. I highly recommend you have foundational knowledge of IPv4 networks and OSI model before proceeding with this section.
There are four foundational services offered by AWS:
These services follow the general building block services which we discussed in this post. These foundational services tend be the first services that AWS customers adopt when beginning to use AWS. In fact, most certification exams focus on the four foundational areas of Network, Compute, Storage and Database.
This post will cover networking, and we'll cover other higher order services like integration in the future.
AWS uses all custom network hardware that it designed and manufactures for its own use. For the more network-savvy readers, in a typical AWS environment, there are tens of thousands of customers deploying servers that use overlapping network ranges with each other. Traditional network hardware simply cannot scale up the number of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN) to meet this kind of demand.
Get an introduction to Amazon Web Services' global infrastructure, including data centers, availability zone, regions, local zones and edge locations.
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Author's note: I recommend anyone who works on AWS or wants to build AWS fluency have foundational knowledge of IPv4 Networking and the OSI model. This will make it easier to understand these Getting Started Guides for AWS and other cloud vendor content. And for a refresher, read the previous blog in this series: Getting Started with AWS: Design & Building Blocks
It's important to understand AWS's Global Infrastructure because that is where all foundational AWS services like network, compute, storage and databases reside.
Let’s start with the atomic unit AWS' infrawstucture, the individual Data Center (DC) — not to be confused with DC Comics! A DC is comprised of anywhere from 40,000 to 80,000 servers and no services run in this layer. This is the same for any other large cloud provider, so AWS is no different in this case. There are things AWS does in their data centers that makes them unique: The way they secure them and make them redundant in terms of redundant network, internet, power access and HVAC.
But none of that matters. Why? Because it's the cloud and AWS is already taking care of this.
What matters is understanding the terms of your Service Level Agreement (SLA). This is the fine print which AWS tells you what kind of uptime and availability to expect for their services and what hardware and technology they use to achieve that.
If you’ve wondered whether there are differences for designing an IT infrastructure for an on-premises environment vs the cloud, the short answer is yes. Get an overview of AWS' building blocks in this blog series.
We won’t cover all of these in this blog, but these design principles highlight the differences between being your own data center and relying on any cloud hosting provider, AWS or otherwise.
Let’s dive in.
I recall an enterprise I worked with that spent 8 months out of the year dedicating most of the IT to capacity planning.
They asked all kinds of questions:
Guess what? When you operate in the cloud, you no longer worry about these questions because AWS takes care of all of it! Imagine all the time your IT team will save without this responsibility.
You can always spin up temporary resources for testing for your Quality Assurance tests to match your production scale, then scale down or remove them when you no longer need them, which is typically after testing is complete. That way you only pay for the resources consumed, rather than any ideal capacity.
These two principles may be the most important of the six. When you automate and evolve, you open the door to innovation.
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AWS Cloud is the most popular for good reason. But popular doesn't mean easy. Learn about the how to get started on the right path with AWS in this blog series.
With 32% global market share, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular cloud platform for business. And for good reason – with global data centers, high availability and security built in at every point, AWS has given companies a more affordable way to experiment and innovate.
One of the things I appreciate most about AWS Cloud is the extra resilience and abilities for your IT infrastructure. It’s always good to be thinking: What’s Plan B? What if our site goes down? What happens to our business continuity?
And AWS has the services to answer these questions and much more. So, let’s make sure you can get started on the right path with AWS in 2022.
First, let’s start with some basics.
When I first start teaching an AWS course, I always ask my students: What is the cloud? When you ask a group of technical people for their opinions on a topic like Cloud, you’re going to have a lot of different answers because everybody has their individual frame of reference. Everybody has their own perspective. Eventually, after the answers pour in, we notice a few topic clusters around Cloud, including AWS, security and pay-as-you-go consumption models. Let’s dive into these topics below.
If cloud is basically someone else’s computer, this should immediately trigger questions a
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