AWS Services

Question 1

What is Amazon S3 (Description, Features and Use Cases)

Answer 1

• Object storage service
• Scalable, available, secure, high performance.
• Uses: Websites, mobile apps, backups, IoT and big data.

Question 2

What is Amazon EBS? (Description, Features and Use Cases)

Answer 2

• Block storage for EC2.
• High performance, designed for intensive workloads.
• Used in databases, enterprise apps, big data, and file systems.

Question 3

What is Amazon EFS? (Description, Features and Use Cases)

Answer 3

• Scalable Network File System
• On-demand scaling, automatic growth/shrink.
• Use in AWS cloud services, on - premise resources.

Question 4

What is Amazon Glacier (Description, Features and Use Cases)

Answer 4

• Low-cost storage for archiving
• Secure, highly durable, compliant
• Used in data archiving and long-term backup.

Question 5

What is Amazon EC2?

Answer 5

Resizable compute capacity as virtual machines.

Question 6

What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Answer 6

Automatically scales EC2 instances based on conditions.

Question 7

What is Amazon ECS?

Answer 7

Container orchestration service for Docker

Question 8

What is Amazon ECR?

Answer 8

Docker container registry for storing and managing images.

Question 9

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 9

Deploys and scales web apps

Question 10

What is AWS Lambda?

Answer 10

Run code without managing servers

Question 11

What is Amazon RDS? (Features and Descriptions)

Answer 11

• Managed relational database
• Resizable, automated provisioning, backups.

Question 12

What is Amazon Aurora? (Description and Performance)

Answer 12

• Relational database compatible with mySQL and PostgreSQL
• 5x faster than MySQL

Question 13

What is Amazon Redshift? (Features and Description)

Answer 13

• A data warehouse for analytic queries.
• Fast performance, scales to petabytes.

Question 14

What is DynamoDB? (Features and Description)

Answer 14

• Key-value and document database
• Single-digit millisecond performance, built-in security.

Question 15

What is Amazon VPC?

Answer 15

Logically isolated section of AWS Cloud.

Question 16

What is Elastic Load Balancing? (Description & Targets)

Answer 16

• Distributes traffic across multiple targets
• Targets include EC2, containers, IPs, Lambda.

Question 17

What is Amazon CloudFront? (Description & Features)

Answer 17

• Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Secure, low latency, high speeds.

Question 18

Amazon Route 53 (Description & Features)

Answer 18

• Scalable DNS web service.
• Name to IP translation and reliable routing.

Question 19

What is AWS Direct Connect? (Description & Benefits)

Answer 19

• Private network connection to AWS.
• Reduced costs, increased bandwidth.

Question 20

What is AWS VPN?

Answer 20

Secure private tunnel to AWS.

Question 21

What is AWS IAM? (Description & Features)

Answer 21

• Manages access to AWS resources.
• User and group management, permissions.

Question 22

What is AWS Organizations?

Answer 22

Manages AWS accounts and control permissions.

Question 23

What is Amazon Cognito?

Answer 23

User authentication and access control for apps.

Question 24

What is AWS Artifact?

Answer 24

Access to security and compliance reports.

Question 25

What is AWS KMS? (Description and Usage)

Answer 25

• Manages encryption keys.
• Controls encryption across AWS services.

Question 26

What is AWS Shield?

Answer 26

Managed DDoS protection service.