What is Cloud ? Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services you use, helping you lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change.
Type of cloud? Public private Hybrid
IAM : What is IAM Identity access management which project the security of the user access persmissions to assigning and maitining IAM policies
What is tools in AWS IAM credentials report - Account level IAM Access Advisor - User level
Amazon EC2:
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EC2 is one of the mosty popular of AWS offering
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EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud = Infrastructure as a Service
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It mainly consists in the capability of :
- Renting Virtual machines (EC2)
- Storing Data on Virtual Drives (EBS)
- Distribiuted Load across machines (ELB)
- Scaling the services using an auto-scaling group (ASG)
Knowing EC2 is fundamental to udnerstand how the clod works