Components and Services of AWS

This guide expects the users to be familiar with the following AWS services.

Component

Description

Amazon VPC

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

A web service for provisioning a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resource in a virtual network that you define. You control your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.

See Also Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

SG

Security Group

A named set of allowed inbound network connections for an instance. (Security groups in Amazon VPC also include support for outbound connections.) Each security group consists of a list of protocols, ports, and IP address ranges. A security group can apply to multiple instances, and multiple groups can regulate a single instance.

NACL

Network ACL

An optional layer of security that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of a subnet. You can associate multiple subnets with a single network ACL, but a subnet can be associated with only one network ACL at a time.

CFT

CloudFormation Template

AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management on AWS. You can create templates for the service or application architectures you want and have AWS CloudFormation use those templates for quick and reliable provisioning of the services or applications (called “stacks”). You can also easily update or replicate the stacks as needed.

Tags

Metadata that you can define and assign to AWS resources, such as an EC2 instance. Not all AWS resources can be tagged.