Interesting Links

This is a list a links that are worth bookmarking or adding to your references since they provide information you may want to use later.

CloudPing.info: Pings every one of the AWS regions and prints the latency in ms that it took for each ping to reach the target region. This page should give a general idea about the latency from your location to the different regions but keep in mind that you should run multiple tests and add other considerations before taking a decision based on these results.

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator: This web page contains a simple form that you can use to estimate the cost of a configuration involving some (it's not an extensive list of every option) of the basic compute, network and storage options. These are list prices so you may be able to get better prices through your company or individual account.

AWS Service Health Dashboard: This dashboard displays the status for every service by region, you can subscribe to specific services if desired. Note that some services are available only in specific regions so don't be surprised if you don't see that service listed under a region of interest.

AWS Free Tier: Overview with all the benefits included in the Free Tier for new customers, the list is quite comprehensive and is valid for 12 months once you open your account, this is a great option if you want to learn AWS on a budget, not everything you need to learn is here but this still a lot of help and a generous perk for you AWS account.

CIDR:  This web page will help you to visualize the resulting address range for your CIDR block.

Draw.io: This website offers a very good template to create you AWS architecture diagrams.