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You may wish to review:
You may wish to review:
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0BxHgV8c-kki8dkpPSEJIcFNOcDQ Lecture 1: Massive Data and AWS, Jan. 11, 2017]
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxHgV8c-kki8ZjVWNTQ2aS1zV0U Lecture 1: Massive Data and AWS, Jan. 11, 2017]


You should understand the following AWS services:
You should understand the following AWS services:

Revision as of 05:52, 14 June 2018

Welcome to Simson's Amazon Web Services tutorial. Below are the key topics that you need to know about Amazon Web Services, and a curated set of articles and videos that will teach you the concepts.

General AWS Information

  • Before you do anything else, understand the AWS billing model:
    • On-Demand, Spot and Reserved Pricing.
    • Storage Pricing
  • Understand users and authentication: AWS root users, IAM users, ACCESS_KEY

Specific AWS Services

You may wish to review:

You should understand the following AWS services:

EC2 — Elastic Compute Cloud

EBS — Elastic Block Service

Challenge question:

  • EBS is part of EC2. Why?

S3 — Simple Storage Service

EMR — Elastic Map Reduce

Challenge questions:

  • What makes Elastic Map Reduce **Elastic**?
  • What's the difference between a Master, Core, and Task node?
  • Some EMR nodes only support EBS, some support both EBS and SSD. Why?

EFS — Elastic File System

Lambda and Serverless Technologies

Artificial Intelligence


Databases