Are S3 buckets in a VPC?

04/26/2022

No, S3 buckets do not reside within a VPC. AWS S3 is a region specific service. If you create a S3 bucket it does not reside within your VPC. It resides within your account and the data is stored within your region. You can, howe…

How to Determine Availability in AWS

04/17/2022

Availability is referred to in AWS as the percentage of time a service is available to be used. In simple terms, your availability determines how reliable your system is. So how do we calculate availability in AWS? All AWS servic…

What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?

12/23/2021

The AWS Shared responsibility model is a way for AWS to divide the duties of security, operations, and compliance with it's end users in the AWS cloud environment. Security and compliance of the logical and physical infrastructur…

What is an AWS Fully Managed Service?

12/20/2021

An 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…