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Amazon EBS: Persistent Storage for EC2
Elastic Block Store provides persistent block storage for EC2 instances. Unlike instance store, which is ephemeral, EBS volumes persist even if the instanc…
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Understanding EC2: Your Virtual Server in the Cloud
Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, is the backbone of AWS. Think of it as renting a powerful computer online instead of buying one. You can launch a virtual se…
AWS
CloudFront: Speeding Up Your Content Globally
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that makes your website fast anywhere in the world. It caches your content at edge locations close to users…
Google Cloud Platform
Why I Moved From AWS to GCP (And Never Looked Back)
This might be controversial. I started on AWS. EC2, RDS, S3. It worked. But something always felt off. The console was a maze. The documentation felt like…
AWS
Elastic Load Balancing: Distributing Traffic Like a Pro
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances. When I first set up an Applicatio…
AWS
AWS Cost Management: Avoiding Bill Shock
The number one fear for AWS beginners is getting an unexpectedly high bill. I've been there. The key is understanding that AWS charges for what you use, an…
AWS
CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code Explained
CloudFormation lets you define your entire AWS infrastructure in a text file. I moved from manually clicking through the console to writing templates, and…
AWS
Auto Scaling: Growing and Shrinking on Demand
Auto Scaling automatically adjusts your compute capacity to maintain steady performance at the lowest cost. I remember manually adding instances during tra…
Google Cloud Platform
Why I Moved From AWS to GCP (And Never Looked Back)
This might be controversial. I started on AWS. EC2, RDS, S3. It worked. But something always felt off. The console was a maze. The documentation felt like…
AWS
AWS for Absolute Beginners: Your First Step to the Cloud
When I first heard about Amazon Web Services, I thought it was just online storage. I was wrong. It's a massive collection of cloud computing services that…
AWS
Amazon ECS: Running Containers on AWS
Elastic Container Service is AWS's container orchestration service. I started with Docker locally and then moved to ECS to run containers in production. Yo…
AWS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Deploying Apps Without Hassle
Elastic Beanstalk is the easiest way to deploy web applications on AWS. You upload your code, and it handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, and sca…
AWS
CloudWatch: Keeping an Eye on Your AWS Resources
CloudWatch is the monitoring service that tells you what's happening inside your AWS environment. It collects metrics, logs, and events. When I first set u…
DevOps
Deployment 101: Hosting Your First Website
Taking your code from localhost to the live internet is a rite of passage for web developers. The options can feel overwhelming, but start simple. For stat…