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ELB (Elastic Load Balancer)

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What is Elastic Load Balancing? Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in one or more Availability Zones. It monitors the health of its registered targets, and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. Elastic Load Balancing Scales your load balancer capacity automatically … Read more

Security Group

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What is Security Group? A security group controls the traffic that is allowed to reach and leave the resources that it is associated with. For example. after you associate a security group with an EC2 instance, it controls the inbound and outbound trafic for the instance. When you create a VPC, it comes with a … Read more

NACL (Network Accss Control Lists)

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What is NACL? A network access control list (ACL) allows or denies specific inbound or outbound traffic at the subnet level. You can use the default network ACL for your VPC, or you can create a custom network ACL for your VPC with rules that are similar to the rules for your security groups in … Read more

AMI (Amazon Machine Images)

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What is AMI? An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an image that provides the software that is required to set up and boot an Amazon EC2 instance. Each AMI also contains a block device mappin that specifies the block devices to attach to the instances that ou launch. You must specify an AMI when you … Read more

EBS (Amazon Elastic Block Store)

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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store? Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provices scalable, high-performance block storage resources that can be used with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. With Amazon Elastic Block Store, you can create and manage the following block storage resources: Amazon EBS volumes These are storage volumes that you attach … Read more

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

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What is Amazon EC2? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides on-demand, scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Using Amazon EC2 reduces hardware costs so ou can develop and deploy application faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security … Read more