Mastering AWS Core Services

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Mastering AWS Core Services: Advanced Features and Best Practices

As an AWS Solutions Architect, a thorough understanding of core AWS services is fundamental. However, to transition from an associate to a professional level, you need to delve into the advanced features and configurations of these services.

EC2 Advanced Features

Amazon EC2 offers several advanced features that can significantly enhance your cloud infrastructure:

• Auto Scaling: Automatically adjust the number of EC2 instances based on demand. This ensures you have the right amount of resources at any given time.
• Spot Instances: Utilize spare AWS capacity at a reduced cost. This is ideal for fault-tolerant and flexible applications.

S3 Storage Classes and Lifecycle Policies

Amazon S3 provides multiple storage classes tailored to different use cases:

• Intelligent-Tiering: Automatically moves data to the most cost-effective access tier.
• Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive: Ideal for long-term data archiving at a minimal cost.

Implementing lifecycle policies can help manage your storage costs by automatically transitioning objects to more cost-effective storage classes…