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🔶AWS

1. Client-Side Components

  • Web Clients: Browsers, Web applications

  • Mobile Clients: Android, iOS applications

2. Server-Side Components

  • Web Servers:

    • Amazon EC2: Virtual servers for running web applications

    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Deploy and manage applications

  • Application Servers:

    • AWS Lambda: Serverless compute for event-driven workloads

    • Amazon EC2: General-purpose compute

  • Database Servers:

    • Amazon RDS: Managed relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)

    • Amazon Aurora: High-performance, fully managed relational database

3. Databases

  • Relational Databases (SQL):

    • Amazon RDS: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server

    • Amazon Aurora

  • NoSQL Databases:

    • Amazon DynamoDB

    • Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

4. Cache

  • In-Memory Cache:

    • Amazon ElastiCache: Redis, Memcached

  • Content Delivery Network (CDN):

    • Amazon CloudFront

5. Load Balancers

  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB): Distribute traffic across multiple servers

    • Application Load Balancer (ALB): For HTTP/HTTPS traffic

    • Network Load Balancer (NLB): For TCP/UDP traffic

    • Classic Load Balancer (CLB): Legacy applications

6. Message Queues

  • Amazon SQS: Simple Queue Service for reliable messaging

  • Amazon SNS: Simple Notification Service for pub/sub messaging

7. API Gateways

  • Amazon API Gateway: Securely expose APIs to external and internal consumers

8. Microservices

  • Amazon ECS: Elastic Container Service for containerized applications

  • Amazon EKS: Elastic Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes orchestration

  • AWS Fargate: Serverless compute for containers

9. Service Discovery

  • AWS Cloud Map: Service discovery for microservices

  • Amazon ECS Service Discovery: Native service discovery for ECS

10. Configuration Management

  • AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store: Centralized management of configuration settings

  • AWS Secrets Manager: Manage and retrieve secrets

11. Monitoring and Logging

  • Amazon CloudWatch: Full-stack monitoring for applications, infrastructure, and network

  • AWS CloudTrail: Logging of AWS API calls

  • Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon OpenSearch Service): Analyze and visualize log data

12. Authentication and Authorization

  • AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management): Manage user access and encryption keys

  • Amazon Cognito: User authentication, authorization, and user management

13. Scalability and Reliability

  • Horizontal Scaling:

    • Use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for automatic scaling of EC2 instances

  • Vertical Scaling:

    • Increase resources of individual Amazon EC2 instances

  • Redundancy:

    • Use AWS Availability Zones and AWS Regions for redundancy

  • Backup and Disaster Recovery:

    • AWS Backup and Amazon S3 for data integrity and availability

14. Networking

  • Amazon Route 53: Domain name resolution

  • AWS Firewall Manager: Manage firewall rules across accounts

  • Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): Private network within AWS

15. DevOps and CI/CD

  • AWS CodePipeline: Continuous delivery service

  • AWS CodeBuild: Build and test code

  • AWS CodeDeploy: Automated deployment to EC2, Lambda, and on-premises servers

  • AWS CodeCommit: Source control service

16. Data Processing

  • Batch Processing:

    • AWS Batch: Run batch computing workloads

  • Stream Processing:

    • Amazon Kinesis: Real-time data streaming and analytics

    • AWS Lambda: For processing data streams in real-time

17. Analytics and Reporting

  • Amazon Redshift: Data warehousing

  • Amazon QuickSight: Business analytics service

  • AWS Glue: ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service for data integration

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