Study Notes - Amazon Web Services -EC2

What I learned about Amazon Web Services (AWS) from infinitieSkills Training

Introduction: 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of cloud computing and infrastructure resources available from Amazon.com.

From this training, I learned the EC2 and elastic cloud compute, which are virtual servers in the cloud. Storage and content delivery, database administration and security, deployment and management.

I also practiced building  EC2 Linux/Windows Instance, monitoring and reporting security,and  provisioning.

Project Notes- Create a Web Application using Apache Cassandra

Purpose: 

Creating a web application using Cassandra. 

Description: 

Use one Cassandra cluster object ,one session object, and 4 Cassandra nodes 

Pre-Requisites:

1.            Acquired VMware Fusion (to be able to create a virtual machine).

2.            Acquired Ubuntu ISO disk image (to have an operating system as a base for creating a virtual machine).

3.            Used VMware Fusion to create a virtual machine from the disk image.

4.            Installed vim (a text editor) on the virtual machine.

5.            Installed curl (for referencing URLs on the command line).

6.            Installed Oracle JDK (to be able to create and run Java applications).

7.            Installed Apache Maven (for managing dependencies when developing an application).

8.            Installed Eclipse (to have a development environment for writing a Java application).

9.            Installed Tomcat (to be able to host and serve a Java application).

10.          Downloaded Apache Cassandra to the virtual machine.