Understanding AWS Account
- Create an AWS free tier account Refer Here
- The free tier account: AWS offers some lightweight services for free for the first 12 months and some services for free for the life time with some limits
- To understand what is free for 12 months and always free play around with the following link Refer Here
- Tracking your free tier usage Refer Here
- Once the account is created login into account on the website which is called as aws console Refer Here
- Navigate to the billing dashboard
- Whenever you work on an application deployment or creating some resources on aws try creating an estimate in the calculator Refer Here
- Any queries w.r.t to billing/unnecessary charges can be raised using AWS Support Refer Here
- Amazon has Paid Support Plans
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise
- Paid Support Plans Comparision Refer Here
AWS Global Infrastructure: Regions and Zones
- Refer Here for the official docs
- Each Region in AWS will have multiple Availability Zones
- The number of AZ’s might differ from region to region Refer Here
- Pricing of a service might vary from region to region
- There will some difference in the services that are supported in the region.
- Whereas AZ’s in the Region will be the same.
- Most of the services like databases, virtual machines , networks, storage etc are regional services
- AWS also has global services
- Identity and Access
- Billing
AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations
- An edge location is a site where AWS deploys physical server infrastructure to provide low latency user access to AWS data
- An edge location can help in building Content Delivery Networks
- AWS has a global network and this network connects every region and edge location
- This global network is dedicated for AWS usage
- We can establish dedicated connections from our organizations (On-premise) to AWS edge location which transfers the data privately over dedicated network which is referred as Direct Connect
