AWS Global Infrastructure and reliability

Question 1

AWS Region

Answer 1

A named set of AWS resources that’s in the same geographical area. A Region comprises at least three Availability Zones.

Question 2

Determining business factors for the Right Region

Answer 2

Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
Proximity
Feature Availability services within a region
Pricing

Question 3

Region Factor - Compliance with data governance and legal requirements

Answer 3

Does the data need to be in a certain countries or areas

Not all companies have a location specific data regulation

Question 4

Region Factor - Proximity

Answer 4

Select a region that’s close to the customer can help determine the regions and send and received information faster

Latency is the time is takes for data to be sent and received

Question 5

Region factor - Feature Availability services within a region

Answer 5

Sometimes the closest region doesn’t have the feature a user wants/needs

If a develops to build an app on the Amazon Braket, AWS quantum computing platform, this service is not in every region

Question 6

Region Factor - Pricing

Answer 6

Some locations are more expensive to work in

The cost of services vary region to region

Like Brazil is more expensive than other countries

Question 7

What is an Availability Zone ?

Answer 7

A single data center or group of data center within a Region.

Located ten of miles apart

This is have low latency between AZ

Question 8

What is an Edge Location ?

Answer 8

Site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of a user’s content closer to the customer for faster delivery.

Question 9

Describe the AWS management Console

Answer 9

Web-based interface for accessing and managing AWS Services.

-Quickly access recently used services
-Search for other services by name, keyword or acronym
-The console includes wizards and automated workflows that can simply the process of completing tasks

Question 10

Describe the AWS command line interface (CLI)

Answer 10

Enables a user to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line with this tool

-Available on WIndows, MacOS and Linux
-Also automate actions that a user’s services and apps perform through scripts
–A user can use a command to launch an Amazon EC2 instance
–Connect to an Amazon EC2 instance to a specific auto scaling group

Question 11

Describe the AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Answer 11

SDKs make it easier to use AWS services through an API designed for programming language or platform.

-Enables a user to use AWS service with existing apps or create a new app that will run an AWS
-AWS provides documentation and sample code for each programming language such as C++, Java, .NET

Question 12

Describe the AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 12

Provide code and configuration settings, builds the infrastructure.
Elastic Beanstalk deploys the resources necessary to perform tasks:
–Adjust Capacity
–Load Balancing
–Automatic Scaling
–App Health Monitoring

A logical collection of components, including environments, versions, and environment configuration.
An application is conceptually similar to a folder