Week # 04: DevOps Learning Journey - AWS Architecture and Top Services:

In this blog post, we will delve into an AWS architecture designed for deploying a full-stack application. This architecture incorporates a variety of AWS services to ensure scalability, reliability, and security. We will explore each service's role in the architecture, providing a clear understanding of how they work together to support the application.

AWS Services

In the image below we'll figure out some most the top services by AWS to cover all the requirements with our 3-tier application all the services and their details are following.

1. VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

• Description: VPC allows you to launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selecting your IP address range, creating subnets, and configuring route tables and network gateways.

• Purpose: Provides network isolation and security for AWS resources.

2. IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• Description: IAM enables you to securely manage access to AWS services and resources. You can create and manage AWS users and groups and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.

• Purpose: Ensures secure access control across the AWS environment.

3. Route 53

• Description: Route 53 is a scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It routes end-user requests to the appropriate application endpoints.

• Purpose: Manages DNS records and directs traffic to AWS services.

4. API Gateway

• Description: API Gateway enables you to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It handles all the tasks associated with accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls.

• Purpose: Facilitates the creation and management of APIs.

5. Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

• Description: ELB automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.

• Purpose: Enhances fault tolerance by distributing traffic evenly across multiple resources.

6. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

• Description: EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

• Purpose: Hosts and runs applications on virtual servers.

7. ECS (Elastic Container Service)

• Description: ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service. It makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Docker.

• Purpose: Manages containerized applications efficiently.

8. Lambda

• Description: Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

• Purpose: Executes code in response to triggers such as changes in data or system state.

9. CloudFront

• Description: CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds.

• Purpose: Speeds up the distribution of static and dynamic web content.

10. RDS (Relational Database Service)

• Description: RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks.

• Purpose: Stores relational data and handles database operations.

11. DynamoDB

• Description: DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is a fully managed, multi-region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching.

• Purpose: Provides fast and flexible NoSQL database services.

12. S3 (Simple Storage Service)

• Description: S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data.

• Purpose: Stores and retrieves any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.

13. SNS (Simple Notification Service)

• Description: SNS is a fully managed messaging service for both application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) communication. It enables message delivery to distributed systems.

• Purpose: Sends notifications to subscribers of topics.

14. SQS (Simple Queue Service)

• Description: SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

• Purpose: Manages message queues to ensure reliable communication between components.

15. Step Functions

• Description: Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that lets you combine AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services to build and run applications. It provides a visual workflow to design and run.

• Purpose: Orchestrates complex workflows by coordinating multiple AWS services.

16. Athena

• Description: Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries you run.

• Purpose: Performs interactive queries on S3 data using SQL.

17. CloudWatch

• Description: CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real-time. You can use CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms.

• Purpose: Provides monitoring and observability for AWS resources and applications.

18. CloudTrail

• Description: CloudTrail enables governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail.

• Purpose: Tracks user activity and API usage for security and compliance.

19. Amplify

• Description: Amplify provides a set of tools and services that can be used together or on their own to help frontend web and mobile developers build scalable full-stack applications, powered by AWS.

• Purpose: Simplifies the development of scalable full-stack applications.

20. QuickSight

• Description: QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. It lets you easily create and publish interactive BI dashboards.

• Purpose: Provides business intelligence and data visualization.

21. Elastic Beanstalk

• Description: Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services. It supports various programming languages and frameworks, and you can upload your code to Beanstalk, which automatically handles the deployment.

• Purpose: Simplifies application deployment and scaling.

22. App Runner

• Description: App Runner provides a simple, fully managed service to build and run containerized web applications and APIs. You can deploy code or container images and App Runner takes care of everything required to run and scale the service.

• Purpose: Automates running and scaling containerized applications.

23. AppSync

• Description: AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to develop GraphQL APIs by handling the heavy lifting of securely connecting to data sources like DynamoDB, Lambda, and more.

• Purpose: Simplifies the development of GraphQL APIs and data management.

24. Lightsail

• Description: Lightsail is designed for simpler workloads, providing virtual private servers (VPS), managed databases, and object storage. It offers a user-friendly interface and is ideal for beginners and small projects.

• Purpose: Provides an easy-to-use platform for small-scale applications and projects.

25. ElastiCache

• Description: ElastiCache improves the performance of web applications by allowing you to retrieve information from fast, managed, in-memory caches. It supports Redis and Memcached.

• Purpose: Enhances application performance through caching.

26. DocumentDB

• Description: DocumentDB is a fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. It is designed to be highly available and scalable.

• Purpose: Provides a managed, scalable, and highly available document database service.

27. OpenSearch

• Description: OpenSearch is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, secure, and run OpenSearch at scale. It provides real-time search, monitoring, and analysis capabilities.

• Purpose: Offers search, logging, and monitoring capabilities for applications.

28. CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

• Description: CDK is an open-source software development framework to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. It simplifies the process of defining cloud resources.

• Purpose: Facilitates infrastructure as code using high-level programming languages.

29. CloudFormation

• Description: CloudFormation gives you an easy way to model a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, provision them quickly and consistently, and manage them throughout their lifecycles.

• Purpose: Automates the provisioning and management of AWS resources.

30. EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

• Description: EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes.

• Purpose: Simplifies running Kubernetes clusters and managing containerized applications.

31. FSx

• Description: FSx provides fully managed third-party file systems. It supports Windows File Server and Lustre, offering high-performance file systems for various workloads.

• Purpose: Provides managed file storage solutions optimized for performance and cost.

32. Glue

• Description: Glue is a fully managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it easy to prepare and load your data for analytics. It automates the time-consuming steps of data preparation.

• Purpose: Simplifies the process of preparing data for analytics.

33. Kinesis

• Description: Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data. You can build applications that continuously ingest and process large streams of data records in real time.

• Purpose: Enables real-time data streaming and analytics.

34. Neptune

• Description: Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.

• Purpose: Provides a fully managed graph database for applications.

35. Redshift

• Description: Redshift is a fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data across your data warehouse and data lake.

• Purpose: Offers a scalable data warehouse for big data analytics.

36. SageMaker

• Description: SageMaker provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly. It eliminates the heavy lifting of managing ML infrastructure.

• Purpose: Simplifies the process of building and deploying machine learning models.

Conclusion

This comprehensive AWS architecture leverages a multitude of services to create a robust, scalable, and secure environment for deploying full-stack applications. Each service plays a crucial role, contributing to the overall efficiency and performance of the application. By understanding the purpose and functionality of each service, developers can build and manage cloud-based applications that meet their specific needs and business goals.

Happy Learning!