AWS

General

Regions and Availability Zones

Amazon cloud computing resources are hosted in multiple locations world-wide. These locations are composed of AWS Regions and Availability Zones. Each AWS Region is a separate geographic area. Each AWS Region has multiple, isolated locations known as Availability Zones. An Availability Zone is a logical data center in a region available for use by any AWS customer. Each zone in a region has redundant and separate power, networking and connectivity to reduce the likelihood of two zones failing simultaneously. A common misconception is that a single zone equals a single data center.

Web Services

• Web-Service Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
  • Instance

Instances marked with a t are used for testing, the m (memory-intensive) types can be used for processing larger databases or installing single servers. The large capacity c (CPU-intensive) Instances are recommended for e.g. hosting Magento stores.

• • • Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
      • Instance Types
        • t2.micro (free)