AWS Flashcards
1
Q
What is an EC2
A
Elastic Compute Cloud
- provides scalable computing capacity in AWS Cloud
2
Q
Benefits of ec2
A
- eliminates need to invest in hardware upfront
- develop & deploy apps faster
3
Q
features of ec2
A
- virtual computing environments
- AMIs- template for instances
- instance store volumes
- EBS volumes
- availability zones
- security groups
- tags
4
Q
What is Amazon VPC
A
Virtual Private Cloud
- allows you to use / launch AWS resources into your own secure & private isolated network
5
Q
benefits of vpc
A
- allow companies to build a secure environment for mission-control enterprise cloud apps
- quick-to deploy backup & disaster recovery options
- easy to scale resources up or down
- saves $$$
6
Q
why would i want to share the virtual cloud??
A
- your network is isolated from other networks in the cloud with unique
- IP address
- subnets
- security groups
7
Q
what is aws auto scaling
A
- lets you choose scaling strategies on how to optimize your resource utilization `
8
Q
benefits of auto scaling
A
- maintain performance targets
- control costs by removing unneeded resources
- use previous metrics to learn app traffic patterns and scale resources ahead of time
9
Q
what is a load balancer
A
- monitors health of targets automatically distributes incoming traffic to healthy targets
- (EC2 instance, containers, etc…)
10
Q
benefits of the load balancer
A
- increases the availability of your application
- meets SLO expectations
- scales as traffic changes over time
11
Q
Different types of Cloud Services
A
IaaS
SaaS
PaaS
12
Q
What is IaaS
A
-Infrastructure as a Service
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13
Q
How does Kubernetes relate to AWS
A
- Elastic Kubernetes Service EKS
- provides command line interface (CLI)
- ex: kubectl
14
Q
Explain Rolling Updates
A
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