Magnetic StorageRDS offers magnetic storage for backward compatibility with older instances. It’s limited to a maximum size of 4 TB and 1,000 IOPS. Read ReplicasIf your database instance doesn’t meet your performance requirements, you have a few options, depending on where the bottleneck is. As mentioned previously, if your memory, compute, network speed, or disk …
IAM IdentitiesThe one identity that comes with every new AWS account is the root user. By default, root has full rights over all the services and resources associated with your account. This makes sense since there would otherwise be no way for you to get things done with the services that lie beyond root control. …
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Third-Party Automation SolutionsOf course, you can also create your own infrastructure automation scripts using Bash or Windows PowerShell. Such scripts can connect directly to your AWS account and launch, manipulate, and delete resource stacks. Besides Bash and PowerShell scripts, third-party configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible can be used to closely manage …
Optimizing Performance for the Core AWS ServicesThrough the book’s earlier chapters, you experienced the power and flexibility of Amazon’s compute, storage, database, and networking services. You’ve seen how to tune, launch, and administrate those tools to support your applications, and you’re aware of some of the many configuration options that come built-in with the platform. …
AWS Managed Microsoft ADManaged Microsoft AD is actually accessed through the AWS Directory Service, as are a number of directory management tools like Amazon Cloud Directory and Cognito. (Cloud Directory is a way to store and leverage hierarchical data like lists of an organization’s users or hardware assets.) What the Directory Service tools all share …
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DNS ManagementHowever you registered your site name, until you find some way to connect your domain with the resources it’s supposed to represent, it won’t do you a lot of good. On Route 53, it’s the way you create and configure a hosted zone that determines what your users will be shown when they invoke …
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This blog is defining The DNS & Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 & Amazon CloudFront-1. DNS is Domain Name System. The Domain Name SystemDNS is responsible for mapping human-readable domain names (like example.com) to the machine-readable IP addresses (like 93.184.216.34) they represent.Whenever you launch a new network-facing service on AWS—or anywhere else—and want it to …
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Alarm StatesAn alarm can be in one of the three following states at any given time:ALARM The data points to alarm have crossed and remained past a defined threshold for a period of time.OK The data points to alarm have not crossed and remained past a defined threshold for a period of time.INSUFFICIENT_DATA The alarm …
Relational DatabasesA relational database contains at least one table, which you can visualize as a spreadsheet with columns and rows. In a relational database table, columns may also be called attributes, and rows may also be called records or tuples. Columns and AttributesBefore you can add data to a relational database table, you must predefine …
Route TablesConfigurable virtual routers do not exist as VPC resources. Instead, the VPC infrastructure implements IP routing as a software function, and AWS calls this function an implied router (also sometimes called an implicit router). This means there’s no virtual router on which to configure interface IP addresses or dynamic routing protocols. Rather, you only …
