Module 3 - Infrastructure

"A Region consists of two or more Availability Zones."

Amazon CloudFront (It's a CDN)

A global content delivery service
Uses edge locations for low latency content delivery
Edge locations are separate from regions
Also uses Amazon Route 53 for DNS

AWS Outposts

AWS Mini-region in private data center

Provisioning AWS Resources:

AWS Management Console
CLI
SDKs
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS CloudFormation

AWS Elastic Beanstalk:

Build and save infrastructure deployment configs easily

AWS CloudFormation:

Infrastructure as code
CloudFormation templates in json or yml
CloudFormation Engine will make API calls to build the infrastructure