AWS keywords

AWS keywords

EC2: elastic compute cloud

EBS: elastic block store, just some storage

VPC: virtual private cloud, private network among instances

SPOT: unrented EC2 instances available for ren in cheap with bidding, will be occupied till the bid is better than market demand

IAM: Identity and Acess Management, customAccount created for each user of a comany and then added them in different groups and each groups given certain accesses, this customAccount s are IAM, 

Role: a packet of access that could be temporarily assigned to a service or a IAM, if assigned to IAM then that IAM s accesses would be chaged the role’s. 

STOP vs Terminate: EC2 terminate will delte EBS instance, STOP won’t

Snapshot: backup of a EBS in a specific status. saved in regional S3 storage, charges based on volume and time span. 

RDP: remote desktop

KeyPair: A key pair consists of a public key that AWS stores, and a private key file that you store. Together, they allow you to connect to your instance securely.