Self-Study Day: Understanding Some of AWS's Tools, Part 1

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Self-Study Day: Understanding Some of AWS's Tool, Part 1

Have been learning about some different services and what they do. Please note some of this stuff I do know and I have worked with some of this stuff for ages anyway. But I still love to learn anew because learning things through fresh perspectives really helps me to learn things and to consolidate things.

As always this is extremely vague and just my impressions about services and what they do.

Thank you

What is AWS?

AWS as we all know is a cloud computing platform right? It can include object storage services (S3), relational databases (RDS), computing (EC2) (whatever on earth that means, lol), database replication (DMS), IAM (identity and access manager), Secrets Manager, and many many more.

The training then talks about different types of AWS accounts which is so helpful as it explains so much that I had heard about but never fully understood before.

It's still quite confusing but at least now I have some context. I do have a further question about AWS accounts but I have made a further note of it for myself until I know who to ask. Anyway today I learned:
  • S3 stands for Simple Storage Service
  • It is a "HUGE HARD-DRIVE ON THE CLOUD"
  • I also learned that names in s3 look like file paths, because of the slashes, but they are not file paths, they are just names
  •  I learned something about storing backups of buckets before they are purged but why would be we purge buckets?
Then:
  • RDS. 
    • it encapsulates a buch of relational database management systems
  • We use something called replicas
And:
  • Database management migration services are something that is used for migrating databases
    • I'm trying to understand why you would even WANT to use a DMS
PAUSE - ZOOM OUT - I DID A BIT OF RESEARCH ON THIS.

It says that it moves your data from one database to another... and that it can be helpful to update your database from one version to another

Wait what okay yeah so you can have multiple versions of databases

Hmm but how and whyyy


  • EC2
    • EC2 = elastic cloud compute
    • Makes sense, thank you
    • Virtual servers are referred to as "EC2 instances"... ... ...
      • Makes sense, thank you
    • Still curious to know about more as to why you would actually use it but I have ASKED - thanks. ♥️
    • Ah right okay yes I see - I think it might be used for running certain services.
  • EKS
    • Elastic Kubernetes Service
    • It's "Amazons Managed Kubernetes Service"
    • It simplifies using Kubernetes apparently.

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