AWS Global Infrastrastructure

Question 1

AWS Regions

Answer 1

• Greographical Area
• Data not automatically replicated across regions
• Communication between regions uses AWS backbone network
• Region typically has 2+ Availability zones
• Each region has full redundancy and connectivity to the network

Question 2

Factors when Selecting a Region

Answer 2

• Data governance and legal requirements
• proximity to customers (latency)
• services available within the region
• costs (vary by region)

Question 3

AWS Availability Zones

Answer 3

• Fully isolated partition of AWS infrastrucutre
• ~69 AZs worldwide
• discrete data centers (commonly 3)
• designed for fault isolation
• interconnected with other AZs by high speed private network
• you choose AZ
• Recommended to replicate data across AZs

Question 4

AWS Data Centers

Answer 4

• designed for security
• has redundant power, networking, and connectivity
• separate facilities
• 50k - 80k physical servers

Question 5

AWS Points of Presence

Answer 5

• 187 PoPs globally (most major cities)
• includes 176 edge locations and 11 regional edge caches
• Amazon CloudFront (global content delivery network)

Question 6

AWS Global Infrastructure Benefits

Answer 6

1. Elastic and scalable
2. Fault tolerant
3. High availability

Question 7

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Answer 7

• alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you
• A personalized View of Service Health
• Proactive Notifications
• Detailed Troubleshooting Guidance

Question 8

AWS Abuse Team

Answer 8

AWS Abuse team can assist you when AWS resources are being used to engage in the following types of abusive behavior:

• Spam
• Port scanning
• Denial of service attacks (DOS)
• Intrusion attempts
• Hosting objectionable or copyrighted content
• Distributing malware

Question 9

Infrastructure Event Management

Answer 9

AWS Infrastructure Event Management is a short-term engagement with AWS Support

• included in the Enterprise-level Support product offering,
• available for additional purchase for Business-level Support subscribers
• provides the company with architectural and scaling guidance

Question 10

AWS Managed Services

Answer 10

• Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
• DynamoDB
• Lambda
• RDS
• Redshift
• CloudFront
• and many others
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Question 11

AWS Migration Acceleration Program

Answer 11

comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based upon AWS’s experience migrating thousands of enterprise customers to the cloud

• Methodology
• Tools
• Training
• Professional Services
• Partners
• Investments