Developing on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
What Is The AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
12 / 23 / 2021Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between users and AWS within the AWS cloud. The AWS shared responsibility model allows users to focus on utilizing AWS services without having to manage the underlying hardware. Another way to describe the shared responsibility model is that AWS is responsible for security "of" the cloud, while the end user is...
What Is An AWS Fully Managed Service?
12 / 20 / 2021An AWS fully managed service is a service that allows an AWS user to consume an AWS service and focus on just managing the data. This helps AWS users to focus more on solving business problems, and less on compliance and security. AWS doesn’t offer this type of service for all of its offerings. You will typically have to investigate each type of service...
What Is An AWS Service Level Agreement?
10 / 4 / 2021An AWS service Level Agreement (SLA) is an agreement between an AWS user and AWS regarding the level of availability that AWS guarantees. The level of availability that AWS guarantees is specific to each service it offers, and it applies separately to each account using those services. For example, if you visit the latest AWS Service Level Agreement at...
What Is An EC2 Instance?
12 / 23 / 2021An AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a service provided by Amazon Web Services. An EC2 Instance is a virtual server provided to a user through the AWS EC2 service. Why use EC2 Instances? EC2 instances allow end users the ability to create different servers within minutes. You can launch EC2 instances using a large number of preconfigured templates...