Architect Certification Flashcards
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Maximum amount of time in which a service can remain unavailable before it is classed as damaging to the business
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Maximum amount of time for which data could be lost for a service
Ways of getting data in/out of AWS from on-premise
Direct Connect, VPN Connection, Internet Connection
How much data does a Snowball appliance hold
50-80 TB
How much data does a Snowmobile hold
100 PB
Storage Gateway
Connects on-premise database to AWS S3
S3 classes
Standard Class (Durability = 11 9’s, Availability = 4 9’s), Infrequence Access (IA) (Durability = 11 9’s, Availability = 3 9’s), Amazon Glacier (Duribility = 11 9’s, Availabiliy = N/A). IA is often used for backup data. Gracias is used for “cold storage”. Standard is most expensive. Glacier is least expensive.
AWS Artifact
Allows access to AWS Compliance Reports which are useful to auditors. Reports include the scope (AWS services, regions, etc.)
S3 capacity
Files from 1 byte to 5 TB (later lesson says 0 byes to 5TB)
S3 Class: Standard
Automatically replicates data across AZs within a region. Can encrypt data in transit and at rest. Has data management capabilities so that data can be moved to other S3 classes or deleted for cost optimization.
S3 Class: Infrequent Access (IA)
Only difference from standard class is lower cost and lower availability.
S3 Class: Amazon Glacier
Stores data in archives instead of buckets. Archives can save up to 40TB. Archives are stored within vaults.
AMI
Baseline EC2. Can be purchased through Marketplace or selected from community versions.
Instance Type
The size of an instance based on several parameters. Key parameters are vCPUs, memory, instance storage and network performance. Instances are grouped into families.
Instance Families
Micro (low throughput services), General Purpose (small to medium databases, test servers and backend servers), Compute optimized (compute intensive, video processing, scientific apps), GPU (graphics intensive apps), FPGA (massively parallel such as genomics and financial computing), Memory Optimized (real-time in-memory apps), Storage Optimized (uses SSD to reduce latency for very high I/O like noSQL databases)
Instance Purchase Options
On-Demand, Reserved, Scheduled, Spot, On-Demand Capacity Reservations
On Demand Instances
Launch at any time, can be used for as long as you want, flat rate, typically used for short term uses, best fit for testing and development
Reserved Instances
Purchase is made for 1-3 year term in exchange for a discount. Instances are either paid for all upfront, partial upfront or no upfront.
Scheduled Instances
Used for daily, weekly or monthly tasks.
Spot Instances
Must big on available EC2 resources. As long as the bid price is above the fluctuating price set by Amazon, get to use the instance. If the big falls below the price, a 2 minute warning is issued before termination. Only useful for processing that can suddenly interrupted.
On Demand Capacity Reservations
Reserve capacity based on instance type, platform and tenancy within a particular AZ for any length of time. Can be used in conjunction with reserve instance discounts.
Shared Tenancy
EC2 will run on any available host regardless of who else is running on that same server.
Dedicates Instances
EC2 runs on dedicated hardware.
Dedicated Host
Similar to dedicated instances but allows the same host to be used by multiple instances. Also allowed for running licensed software.