Cloud Computing Intermediate

What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)?

An AWS object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

Amazon S3 stores data as objects in buckets. Objects can be any type of file, up to 5TB each. S3 provides 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability and various storage classes for different access patterns and costs.

Storage classes include Standard (frequent access), Intelligent-Tiering (automatic optimization), Glacier (archival), and One Zone-IA (infrequent access). S3 supports versioning, lifecycle policies, encryption, and static website hosting.

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Cloud Computing

The delivery of computing services over the internet, including servers, storage, databases, and software on demand.

Discounted cloud compute instances that use spare capacity at significantly lower prices but can be interrupted with short notice.

Automatically adjusting the number of computing resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimize costs.

Virtual Machine (VM)

A software-based emulation of a physical computer that runs its own operating system and applications.

A distributed computing paradigm that processes data near the source of generation rather than in a centralized cloud data center.

Elastic Load Balancing

An AWS service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances and containers.

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