The Cloud Dictionary of Pain: Five Of AWS's Toughest ...

Today we’ll be covering five of the most challenging topics we identified: Amazon SQS, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS VPCs, AWS Lambda, and Subnets. This list is a subset of dozens of terms and topics we attacked across all three major cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. You can find our complete walkthrough to Amazon’s thorny topics in the full Cloud Dictionary of Pain. ... You can’t have one subnet across multiple availability zones. You’ll probably hear something along the lines of “one subnet equals one availability zone.” Let’s say you’ve decided to launch a VPC within a particular region, and within that region, AWS offers a set of availability zones. If you’d like to keep some information private— such as a set of customer information in an RDS database—you would launch a private subnet within one availability zone.