AWS - Orion Flashcards by Kelsey Hyde

Each Region consists of multiple …

Regions

Availability Zones

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Availability Zones provide the foundation for … and fault tolerance

(Regions)

High availability

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Availability Zones provide the foundation for high availability and …

(Regions)

Fault Tolerance

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At the highest level, AWS is made up of …

Regions

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… are a grouping of separated data centres in a geographic area

(Regions)

Availability Zones

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… provide the foundation for high availability and fault tolerance

(Regions)

Availability Zones

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… allow for the design of applications that conform to specific laws and regulations for specific parts of the world.

(Regions)

Regions

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Regions allow for the design of applications that … for specific parts of the world.

(Regions)

…conform to specific laws and regulations…

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Regions allow for the design of applications that conform to specific laws and regulations for …

(Regions)

…specific parts of the world.

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Some AWS services work … rather than within a specific region.

(Regions)

…globally…

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Some AWS services work globally rather than …

Regions

…within a specific region.

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Data Centres contain the … that run most AWS services.

Regions

…servers…

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… contain the servers that run most AWS services.

Regions

Data Centres

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Properly designed applications will utilise multiple … to ensure fault tolerance

(Regions)

Availability Zones

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There are direct low-latency connections between each … within a region.

(Regions)

Availability Zone

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There are … between each Availability Zone within a region.

(Regions)

…direct, low-latency connections…

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… are isolated from each other to ensure fault tolerance.

Regions

Availability Zones

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Availability Zones are isolated from each other to …

Regions

…ensure fault tolerance.

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A VPC spans multiple …

Regions

…availability zones and data centres.

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The fact that VPCs span multiple availability zones allows for … applications

(Regions)

…highly available and fault tolerant…

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The fact that VPCs … allows for highly available and fault tolerant applications

(Regions)

…span multiple availability zones…

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An … is an AWS data centre which does not contain AWS services.

(Edge Locations)

…Edge Location…

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An Edge Location is an … which does not contain AWS services.

(Edge Locations)

…AWS data centre…

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An Edge Location is an AWS data centre which …

Edge Locations

… does not contain AWS services.

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An ... is used to deliver content to different parts of the world. (Edge Locations)

...Edge Location...

An Edge Location is used to ... | Edge Locations

...deliver content to different parts of the world.

Edge locations allow for ... | Edge Locations

...caching items.

Caching items at edge locations reduces the ... required for requests from that part of the world. (Edge Locations)

...space/time/latency...

Caching items at edge locations reduces the space/time/latency required for ... (Edge Locations)

...requests from that part of the world.

... reduces the space/time/latency required for requests from that part of the world. (Edge Locations)

Caching items at edge locations ...

All actions done in the management console are ... | Accounts

...API calls.

The CLI is a ... for accessing and administering AWS resources. (Accounts)

...text-based interface...

The CLI is a text-based interface for ... | Accounts

...accessing and administering AWS resources.

All commands executed using the CLI are ... | Accounts

...API calls.

All commands executed using the CLI require ... | Accounts

...API key configuration.

All commands executed using the ... require API key configuration. (Accounts)

...CLI...

The ... user is the user created when you first create your AWS account. (Accounts)

...root...

By default, the root user has ... to every part of the account. (Accounts)

...FULL administrative rights and access...

The root user is ... | Accounts

...the user created when you first create your AWS account.

By default, the ... has FULL administrative rights and access to every part of the account. (Accounts)

...root user...

By default, the root user has FULL administrative rights and access to ... (Accounts)

...every part of the account.

You ... the root user for daily work and AWS administration. | Accounts

...should not use...

You should not use ... for daily work and AWS administration. (Accounts)

...the root user...

You should not use the root user for ... | Accounts

...daily work and AWS administration.

You should always protect your root user with ... | Accounts

MFA

Instead of using your root user, you should create ... for daily work. (Accounts)

...a second user that has admin rights...

Instead of ..., you should create a second user that has admin rights for daily work. (Accounts)

...using your root user...

A VPC is designed to resemble ... | VPC

...private on-premise data centres.

A VPC is housed within ... | VPC

...a chosen AWS region.

A VPC allows you to ... in separate availability zones. | VPC

...provision redundant resources...

Provisioning resources in separate availability zones keeps them accessible on the same network, while ... (VPC)

...providing redundancy..

A VPC allows you to provision redundant resources in ... | VPC

...separate availability zones.

Provisioning resources in separate availability zones keeps them ..., while providing redundancy. (VPC)

...accessible on the same network...

A VPC provides ... with: - Instance-level Security Groups - Subnet-level Network ACLs (VPC)

...layered security...

The default VPC is ... when it is first created. | VPC

...preconfigured in your account...

The default VPC allows ... without having to configure it from scratch. (VPC)

...easy access to a VPC...

In the default VPC all subnets have ... via a route table and an attached internet gateway. (VPC)

...a route to the internet...

By default, each instance launched in ... has a public and private IP address. (VPC)

...the default subnet...

A VPC provides layered security with: - Instance-level ... - Subnet-level Network ACLs (VPC)

Security Groups

The default VPC is preconfigured in your account when ... | VPC

...it is first created.

The default VPC allows easy access to a VPC without having to ... (VPC)

...configure it from scratch.

In the default VPC all subnets have a route to the internet via ... (VPC)

...a route table and an attached internet gateway.

By default, each instance launched in the default subnet has a ... IP address. (VPC)

...public and private...

A VPC provides layered security with: - Instance-level Security Groups - Subnet-level (VPC)

Network ACLs

The ... allows easy access to a VPC without having to configure it from scratch. (VPC)

...default VPC...