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🗒️ Class 17: AWS: S3 and Lambda

Readings

AWS S3

• What is Amazon S3?

  Amazon S3 is Amazon Simple Storage Service. It is an object storage service.

• Name some use cases for Amazon S3.

  Data Analyrics, Machine Learning and Data Insight and Data Backup and Restoration.

• Name some benefits of using Amazon S3.

  Because Amazon S3 is scalable and is a pay per use service, you can start of small and grow your application as you need.

AWS Lambda Basics

• What is AWS Lambda?

  AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service offered by Amazon.

• Name some use cases for AWS Lambdas.

  Creating APIs and Data Processing.

• Describe “serverless” to a non-technical friend.

  It is a way to create applications with out the need to maintain or manage the servers, the network, and the infrastructure and you would just need to focus on creating code.

CDN

• What is a CDN?

  CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. It allows faster transfer of data for loading web content.

• How does a CDN work with relation to the website visitor?

  A visitor visits a website and sends a request back to the server. The CDN will ping the closest server and deliver cached content and providing the user with faster page load times.

• What are the benefits of employing a CDN?

  The Benefit of employing a CDN is that it gives the user access to any site with out worring about load times because the user is being redirected to the closest CDN to them.