AWS

Question 1

CloudWatch Event Rules

Answer 1

Respond to system events and changes in your AWS environment.

Ex: Trigger AWS lambda functions or other AWS services based on scheduled events (like a cron job)

Question 2

SAM

Answer 2

Serverless Application Model

Created to simplify the development, deployment and management of serverless applications.

Designed to specifically work with Lambda

Allows you to define serverless resources and their configs using a simple YAML template

Example of Simplified Infra as Code

Question 3

Batch computing jobs

Answer 3

automated programs that run on a computer without human interaction

ex: repetitive data tasks that are compute intensive like filtering, sorting, and backups.

Often schedules to run when the computer is idle like during the weekend or overnight

Question 4

Batch computing jobs characteristics

Answer 4

• Scheduled: run at regularly scheduled times
• Automated: automated processes that perform similiar tasks without user interaction
• Cost effective: good way to handle large amounts of data at once
• Chained: multiple batch jobs can be chained together to form a group of jobs called a batch job chain
• Resource provisions:

Question 5

AWS Batch Job

Answer 5

fully managed service that allows users to run batch computing jobs on AWS Cloud without having to install or manage batch computing software or server clusters

• Plans, schedules and runs jobs, manages infra for users too

Question 6

Cloudwatch

Answer 6

a monitoring and management service provided by AWS.

Helps you keep track and collect metrics, monitor log files, set alarms and automatically react to changes in your AWS resources.

Helps you keep an eye on your AWS resources

Question 7

CI/CD

Answer 7

An automated series of steps used by software development teams to continuously integrate, build, test and deploy code changes

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

Question 8

Typical stages of CI/CD pipeline

Answer 8

Source code retrieval (fetches the latest code from repo)

Build (compiling the code into an executable format)

Unit testing (running automated tests)

Integration testing

Deployment

Question 9

AWS SDK

Answer 9

Software Development Kit

• A collection of tools and libraries that allow devs to easily interact with various AWS services by providing pre-built code to make API calls and manage their cloud infra