Category: Cloud

Simple Workflow Service (SWF) It is a task coordinator and state management service for your applications in the Cloud. It has Deciders and Workers that we could configure as we need. SWF ensures tasks are executed in a reliable way, in order and without duplicate them. Deciders and Workers run in your infrastructure and SWF … Continue reading Discovering AWS: Application Services

Relational Database Service (RDS) It provides a SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL server, installed, configured and ready to use. AWS will manage the infrastructure: they will install the patches, execute the backups, resizing, availability (they will manage the failover, for example), etc. And our DBAs will manage the databases. DynamoDB It is a NoSQL … Continue reading Discovering AWS: Database

Simple Storage Service (S3) It is not a file system, it is an object store. It has an unlimited store capacity, it is highly scalable and available, and exists inside a region, this means that object are not moved outside of the region unless you specify it. By default, all objects are replicated. All object … Continue reading Discovering AWS: Storage

I would like to share a series of post explaining the main services that AWS offered right now, just the main ones because the number of services grow day by day. We will see just a simple description of the main features of each service. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is in AWS the … Continue reading Discovering AWS: Computing