Episode 76
In the previous episode, we started dive into Amazon networking services group with VPC. I’ve mentioned networking services in the AWS introduction episode, as one of three most basic, along with storage and compute.
Aside from VPC, networking category consists of three more services: Route 53, a DNS provider named after port number not the American Highway. CloudFront, for throwing pictures of cats at our users even faster. Finally, Direct Connect, to upload those pictures to the cloud while offline (and of course: faster).
Route 53
Route 53 is a Domain Name System (DNS), a naming service used since the beginning of the Internet. It facilitates translation of human-friendly names into IP addresses understood by routers, computers and other connected devices that supports TCP/IP stack. When we type an address in the browser, it’s checked whether it’s stored locally and if not, if it’s available in DNS cache. If it’s not, there is a query to Read the rest of this entry »
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