AWS Core Services

Question 1

What is EC2?

Answer 1

Elastic Cloud Compute

Question 2

What is AMI?

Answer 2

Amazon Machine Image which is the software platform for your EC2 Instance

Question 3

What is EBS?

Answer 3

Elastic Block Storage - Disk space for your EC2 instance. Can be HDD or SSD

Question 4

What are the benefits of EC2 vs Physical Instances on-premise?

Answer 4

• Pay only for capacity used

- Ability to have different storage requirements

Question 5

What is Amazon’s simple storage service called?

Answer 5

S3

Question 6

What are the three components to S3 ?

Answer 6

Buckets - store your objects

Objects have keys that are their names (usually like a file path)

Question 7

What are AWS Regions?

Answer 7

Regions are geographic areas with two or more availability zones and they are the organizing level for AWS services

Question 8

What should you consider when selecting an AWS Region to deploy to?

Answer 8

Cost
Latency
Regulatory Requirements (HIPPA, GDPR, etc)

Question 9

What are Availability Zones?

Answer 9

A collection of data centers in a specific region

Question 10

What is an edge location?

Answer 10

Where content delivery networks (CDN) are hosted. AWS Cloudfront.

Question 11

What acts like a firewall to your virtual servers?

Answer 11

Security Groups