Introduction

Welcome to the RESN AWS Guide! This will aim to describe the components of AWS which are required to host RESN’s apps and servers.

Elastic Beanstalk (EB)

More detailed information available here.

Relational Database Service (RDS)

More detailed information available here.

Route 53

More detailed information available here.

Simple Storage Service (S3)

S3 is the static file hosting service. At RESN, we use this for storing file uploads. This includes photos or documents uploaded, including profile photos, question/answers, etc.

Amplify

Amplify is AWS’s response to Firebase Hosting - it is designed to host static web apps with tools to assist with building and deployment.