JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·17h ago · 4 min readRDS vs Self-Managed Database on EC2: When to Use EachRunning a database on AWS means choosing between RDS (a managed service) and installing a database engine yourself on an EC2 instance. The decision gets treated as obvious, but it's worth understandin00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 3 min readWeek 1 Recap: Compute, Storage, and Access FundamentalsDay 1 — Top 10 AWS Services You Should Know EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, Security Groups, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, CloudTrail. AWS has 200+ services, but most real work concentrates in a s00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 4 min read VPC Basics: How Your AWS Network Actually WorksA VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is your own isolated network within AWS — but that definition alone doesn't explain why it's structured the way it is, or what each piece actually does. Here's the practi00
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 4 min read Security Groups vs NACLs: What's the Real DifferenceBoth Security Groups and Network ACLs (NACLs) control what network traffic is allowed into and out of your AWS resources. The confusion is understandable — they do overlapping jobs. But they work at d01I
JSJayesh Sojitrainjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 4 min readIAM Explained: Users, Roles, and Policies Without the ConfusionIAM (Identity and Access Management) controls every single permission in your AWS account — which makes it foundational, but also means getting the core vocabulary wrong causes confusion that compound01I
