Amazon AWS Fundamentals

Source: My personal notes from AWS training courses and cloud training at work

AWS Overview

AWS Regions have multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance. An AZ is a physical data centre
Applications and data can be replicated in real time across AZs
Security is shared responsibility - customer for their data and client use of cloud services; AWS for service software, infrastructure, physical areas
Variety of services ranging from:
- Support: Training, Issues, Guidance, Consulting
- Core Services: Compute, Storage, Databases, networking, Content Delivery Network; including
  - VMs, containers, serverless, storage objects and files, SQL and non relational databases, CDN, DNS, private networks and their integrations
- Identity and Access
- Apps, tools, security
- Analytics, DevOps, mobile, IoT, machine learning, enterprise apps, integration and migration services