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[AWS] Caching

The following services provide caching on AWS:

CloudFront
API Gateway
ElastiCache
DynamoDB Accelerator

DynamoDB is a highly resilient (low-latency) NoSQL database service that replicates data across multiple AZs. DynamoDB can replace existing No SQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra DB, or Oracle NoSQL.

[AWS] Aurora

Aurora is an AWS relational database engine that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

[AWS] VPC – NAT Gateway

NAT (Network Address Translation)

NAT remaps source IPs or destination IPs. (It translates private IPs to public IPs and vice versa.)

Static NAT
- A private IP is mapped to a public IP at a 1:1 ratio. (such as Internet Gateway).
Dynamic NAT
- A range of private IPs are dynamically mapped to one or more public IPs (Home router or NAT Gateways).
- To achieve high availably, create one dynamic NAT per AZ.

[AWS] RDS – Deployment & Backups

Using RDS, you are delegating most of the maintenance tasks to AWS. It is important to understand how you can make use of RDS features in order to utilize the service fully.

[AWS] Relational Database Service (RDS)

RDS is a “Database as a Service (DBaaS)” for OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing). RDS is a managed Relational Database Service in AWS. The main purpose of RDS is to lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).

[AWS] Kinesis Data Streams

Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) collects and processes a large amount of incoming data from an unlimited number of producers.

[AWS] S3 Features

AWS S3 is a main Object storage service and can be integrated with many other AWS Services. Also, S3 has many features that you need to be familiar with in order to utilize the full functionality of S3.

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