Hello there,

Last weekend due to a gaffe at work, I decided to invest and improve my AWS skills. It has been a desire of mine for a few months now to go for the AWS developer associate certification.

I really like the bite size blogging experience in Twitter and felt like that this method could motivate me to do it consistently and also others can learn along with me. I “signed up” to the 100 days of AWS challenge and also to learn in public hashtags.

I got some really positive feedback when I made this announcement on Twitter. My goal was to post at least one fact about what I was studying that day every single day.

My learning usually happens early in the morning before work and my tweet has been at around the time I take my lunch break. Let’s see how did the first week go. I started with the AWS EC2 basics.

AWS VPC

What is an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?

• An Amazon VPC enables you to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined.
• Think of it as a traditional network within your data centre that uses AWS infrastructure.

AWS AZ

What is an AWS Availability Zone (AZ)?

• AZs are AWS data centres that can be found within AWS regions. Each region has multiple AZs.
• As a best practice to ensure high availability for your system, a VPC can span multiple AZs.