InternshipKey terms and common mistakes
The words you will hear in Amazon Web Services work and the mistakes that most often cost interns approvals.
Key terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Region | Geographic area with data centres |
| IAM user | Identity for a person or app |
| Instance | A virtual server |
| Bucket | Container for S3 objects |
| VPC | Virtual Private Cloud |
| RDS | Relational Database Service |
| Lambda | Serverless function service |
| ECR | Elastic Container Registry |
Common mistakes to avoid
- Using the root account for daily work.
- Leaving resources running and getting billed.
- Public S3 buckets by mistake.
- Opening security groups to 0.0.0.0/0 on all ports.
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