AWS: Cloud Servers

Review, Research, and Discussion

• Describe the Web-Request-Response-Cycle
  • The request/response cycle traces how a user’s request flows through the app.
• Explain what a “server” is, as it relates to the WRRC

• A server is a computer that serves information to other computers.

• What does it mean to “deploy” an application?
  • putting it on a Web server so that it can be used either through the Internet or an intranet.

Vocabulary Terms

Server:

• A server is a computer that serves information to other computers.

  Pub/Sub:

• is an asynchronous messaging service that decouples services that produce events from services that process events.

  WRRC:

• The request/response cycle traces how a user’s request flows through the app.

AWS EC2

• is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

• It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
• allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.
• It provides you with complete control of your computing resources.
• lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.
• offers the broadest and deepest compute platform with choice of processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model.

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