Amazon Web Services Website Hosting Fundamentals: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:05, 18 November 2015

Topics related to setting up and managing a static website hosted by Amazon Web Services.

EC2 - virtual application server; service for web applications
RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service supports database servers
IAM
- manages accounts used to access the application server via ssh
- manages roles defining credentials for software running on EC2 instances^[1] ^[2]

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 == AWS services ==
-* '''EC2''' - virtual application server; service for web applications
+* '''[https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ EC2]''' - virtual application server; service for web applications
-* '''RDS''' - Amazon Relational Database Service supports database servers
+* '''[https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/ RDS]''' - Amazon Relational Database Service supports database servers
-* '''IAM''' - manages roles defining credentials for software running on EC2 instances<ref>[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html  IAM Roles for Amazon EC2] - Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances</ref> <ref>[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/WorkingWithRoles.html Roles (Delegation and Federation)] - IAM User Guide</ref>
+* '''[https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/ IAM]'''
+** manages accounts used to access the application server via ssh
+** manages roles defining credentials for software running on EC2 instances<ref>[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html  IAM Roles for Amazon EC2] - Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances</ref> <ref>[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/WorkingWithRoles.html Roles (Delegation and Federation)] - IAM User Guide</ref>
 == Notes ==