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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYpQ1BTmV_o Building A Modern Data Architecture on AWS (Level 200)], Dec. 21, 2017. 23 min
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYpQ1BTmV_o Building A Modern Data Architecture on AWS (Level 200)], Dec. 21, 2017. 23 min
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfEcd3zqPOA&feature=youtu.be AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote], Nov. 29, 2017. 1 hour, 48 min
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfEcd3zqPOA&feature=youtu.be AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote], Nov. 29, 2017. 1 hour, 48 min
* Georgetown University ANLY 502 Massive Data Fundamentals, Spring 2017 [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxHgV8c-kki8dkpPSEJIcFNOcDQ (slides on Google )]
* Georgetown University ANLY 502 Massive Data Fundamentals, Spring 2017 [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxHgV8c-kki8dkpPSEJIcFNOcDQ (slides on Google Drive )] ([http://simson.net/ref/2017/ANLY502/ slides2)]


==Specific AWS Services==
==Specific AWS Services==

Revision as of 06:12, 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