AWS pt 5

Question 1

AWS Step Functions (v)

Answer 1

If it satisfies a condition do it
- Builds a serverless visual workflow to orchestrate your lambda functions
- It helps you utilize serverless stuff
- Implement a human approval feature

Question 2

AWS Ground Station

Answer 2

• Control satellite operations

Question 3

AWS Pinpoint (Marketing Service)

Answer 3

• Scalable 2-way marketing service
• Segment and personalize messages with right content to customers
• Create templates, delivery schedules, highly targeted segments and full campaigns

Question 4

Well Architected Framework General Guiding Principles

Answer 4

• Stop guessing your capacity needs: Auto Scales
• Test systems at production scale
• Automate to make architectural experimentation easier
• Evolutionary architectures: Based on changing requiretments
• Drive architecture using data
• Improve game days: e.g. flash sale days

Question 5

Design Principles

Answer 5

• Scalability: veritcal and horizontal
• Disposable resources: servers should be disposable and easily configured
• Automation: serverless, IaaS, auto-scaling
• Loose coupling: Monolith (Apps that do more over time) -> break into smaller components such that failure of one should not cascade into another
• Services not servers: Do not use EC2, instead managed services DBs, serverless etc

Question 6

Well Architected Framework 6 pillars

Answer 6

Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, Sustainability

Question 7

Operational Excellence

Answer 7

• Perform operations as code (Infra as code)
• Frequenct reversible changes and operational procedures
• Anticipate and learn from failure
• Implement observability for actionable insight: performance, reliability and cost

Question 8

Security

Answer 8

• Protect information, assests and systems through risk assessment and mitigation strategies
• Centralize privilege management and reduce reliance on long term credentials to achieve principles of least privilege

Question 9

Reliability

Answer 9

• ability to recover, dynamically acquire resources and mitigate disruptions
• Test recovery procedures: simulate failures
• Auto-recovery from failure
• Scale horizontally to aggregate system availability
• Stop guessing capacity: auto-scaling

Question 10

Performance Efficiency

Answer 10

• Ability to use resources
• Experiment more often

Question 11

Cost Optimization

Answer 11

• Pay only for what you use (consumption mode)
• Stop spending money on data center operations

Question 12

Sustainability

Answer 12

• Reduce downstream impact of your cloud workloads

Question 13

AWS Well Architected tool

Answer 13

• View your apps against the 6 pillars

Question 14

AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool

Answer 14

Under billing and cost management

Question 15

AWS CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework)

Answer 15

• Helps you build and execute
• Business capabilities
  
  • Business perspective
  • people perspective
  • Governance Perspective
• Technical capabilities
  
  • Platform perspective
  • Security perspective
  • Operations perspective

Question 16

AWS CAF Transformation Domain

Answer 16

• Technology: Using the cloud to migrate and modernize legacy infra, apps, data analysis, plot
• Process: Digitizing, automating, and optimizing your business operations
• Organization: Reimagine your operating model
• Product: Reimagine. business model by creating new value propositions and revenue models

Question 17

CAF Transformation Phases

Answer 17

• Envision: Identify business operations, and see how the cloud will benefit you
• Align: Identify capability gaps by aligning with the 6 CAF perspectives
• Launch: Build and deliver pilot initiatives in production: demonstrate business value
• Scale: Expand pilot initiatives: realize business benefits

Question 18

AWS Right Sizing (V)

Answer 18

• Match sizes to your workload performance and capacity requirements to the lowest possible cost
• Always start small
• Conduct: before a cloud migration and continuously after onboarding
• CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, 3rd Party Tools

Question 19

AWS IQ

Answer 19

• Find professionals to help with your projects
• Video-conferencing, contract management, secure collaboration, integrated billing

Question 20

AWS re:Post

Answer 20

• StackOverflow
• An engineer will answer you if you dont get any
• Knowledge center: Common FAQ

Question 21

AWS Managed Services

Answer 21

• Provides infrastructure, app support on AWS on security, reliability and availability
• Reduce operational overhead and risk

Question 22

Partner network types

Answer 22

APN Technology partners, APN Consulting Partners, APN Training Partners, AWS competency program, AWS navigate program

Question 23

Business Perspective

Answer 23

Ensure your cloud investments will accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes

Question 24

People Perspective

Answer 24

Help organizations rapidly evolve to a culture of continuous growth, learning and change becomes business as normal with focus on culture, organizational structure, leadership and workforce

Question 25

Governance Perspective

Answer 25

Helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximising organizational benefits and minimizing transformation related risks

Question 26

Platform perspective

Answer 26

Enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform, modernize existing workloads and implement new cloud native solutions

Question 27

Security Perspective

Answer 27

Achieve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your data and cloud workloads

Question 28

Operations Perspective

Answer 28

Ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business