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This document provides an overview of key components of the AWS architecture including EC2, S3, load balancing, CloudFront, and security management. It describes EC2 as allowing users to use virtual machines of different configurations. It also discusses load balancing to improve server efficiency and distribute traffic across EC2 instances. Finally, it covers considerations for web hosting on AWS like not needing physical network devices and the availability of secure data centers.

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Aws Edited

This document provides an overview of key components of the AWS architecture including EC2, S3, load balancing, CloudFront, and security management. It describes EC2 as allowing users to use virtual machines of different configurations. It also discusses load balancing to improve server efficiency and distribute traffic across EC2 instances. Finally, it covers considerations for web hosting on AWS like not needing physical network devices and the availability of secure data centers.

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This is the basic structure of AWS EC2, where EC2 stands for Elastic Compute

Cloud. EC2 allow users to use virtual machines of different configurations as per their
requirement. It allows various configuration options, mapping of individual server,
various pricing options, etc. We will discuss these in detail in AWS Products section.
Following is the diagrammatic representation of the architecture.

Note − In the above diagram S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. It allows the
users to store and retrieve various types of data using API calls. It doesn’t contain any
computing element. We will discuss this topic in detail in AWS products section.

Load Balancing
Load balancing simply means to hardware or software load over web servers, that
improver's the efficiency of the server as well as the application. Following is the
diagrammatic representation of AWS architecture with load balancing.

AWS provides the Elastic Load Balancing service, it distributes the traffic to EC2
instances across multiple available sources, and dynamic addition and removal of
Amazon EC2 hosts from the load-balancing rotation.
Elastic Load Balancing can dynamically grow and shrink the load-balancing capacity
to adjust to traffic demands and also support sticky sessions to address more
advanced routing needs.

Amazon Cloud-front
• It is responsible for content delivery, i.e. used to deliver website.
• It may contain dynamic, static, and streaming content using a global network
of edge locations.
• Requests for content at the user's end are automatically routed to the nearest
edge location, which improves the performance.
• Amazon Cloud-front is optimized to work with other Amazon Web Services,
like Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2.
• It also works fine with any non-AWS origin server and stores the original files
in a similar manner.

Elastic Load Balancer


• It is used to spread the traffic to web servers, which improves performance.
• AWS provides the Elastic Load Balancing service, in which traffic is distributed
to EC2 instances over multiple available zones, and dynamic addition and
removal of Amazon EC2 hosts from the load-balancing rotation.
• Elastic Load Balancing can dynamically grow and shrink the load-balancing
capacity as per the traffic conditions.

Security Management
• Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides a feature called security
groups, which is similar to an inbound network firewall, in which we have to
specify the protocols, ports, and source IP ranges that are allowed to reach
your EC2 instances.
• Key Considerations for Web Hosting in AWS
Following are some of the key considerations for web hosting –

No physical network devices needed


• In AWS, network devices like firewalls, routers, and load-balancers for AWS
applications no longer reside on physical devices and are replaced with
software solutions.
• Multiple options are available to ensure quality software solutions.
• For load balancing choose Zeus, HAProxy, Nginx, Pound, etc.
• For establishing a VPN connection choose OpenVPN, OpenSwan, Vyatta, etc.

No security concerns
• AWS provides a more secured model, in which every host is locked down.
• In Amazon EC2, security groups are designed for each type of host in the
architecture, and a large variety of simple and tiered security models can be
created to enable minimum access among hosts within your architecture as
per requirement.

Availability of data centers


• EC2 instances are easily available at most of the availability zones in AWS
region and provides model for deploying your application across data centers
for both high availability and reliability.
Following is the screenshot of AWS management console for Amazon EC2 service.
How to Access AWS?
Step 1 − Click on services. We get a list of various services.

Step 2 − Select the choice from the list of categories and we get their sub-categories such as
Computer and Database category is selected in the following screenshots.

Step 3 − Select the service of your choice and the console of that service will open.

Customizing the Dashboard


Creating Services Shortcuts
Click the Edit menu on the navigation bar and a list of services appears. We can create their
shortcuts by simply dragging them from the menu bar to the navigation bar.
Adding Services Shortcuts
When we drag the service from the menu bar to the navigation bar, the shortcut will be created
and added. We can also arrange them in any order. In the following screenshot we have created
shortcut for S3, EMR and DynamoDB services.

Deleting Services Shortcuts


To delete the shortcut, click the edit menu and drag the shortcut from the navigation bar to the
service menu. The shortcut will be removed. In the following screenshot, we have removed the
shortcut for EMR services.
Selecting a Region
Many of the services are region specific and we need to select a region so that resources can
be managed. Some of the services do not require a region to be selected like AWS Identity and
Access Management (IAM).
To select a region, first we need to select a service. Click the Oregon menu (on the left side of
the console) and then select a region

Changing the Password


We can change password of our AWS account. To change the password, following are the
steps.
Step 1 − Click the account name on the left side of the navigation bar.
Step 2 − Choose Security Credentials and a new page will open having various options. Select
the password option to change the password and follow the instructions.
Step 3 − After signing-in, a page opens again having certain options to change the password
and follow the instructions.

When successful, we will receive a confirmation message.

Know Your Billing Information


Click the account name in the navigation bar and select the 'Billing & Cost Management'
option.
Now a new page will open having all the information related to money section. Using this
service, we can pay AWS bills, monitor our usage and budget estimation.

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