Certification Flashcards
Security Benefits
Scale Securely with Superior Visibility and Control
Automate and Reduce Risk with Deeply Integrated Services
Build with the Highest Standards for Privacy and Data Security
Largest Ecosystem of Security Partners and Solutions
Inherit the Most Comprehensive Security and Compliance Controls
Reliability Benefits
Automatically recover from failure
Test recovery procedures
Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability
Stop guessing capacity
Manage change in automation
High Availability Benefits
Systems have no single point of failure
Correctly instrument and test system availability
Prepare operating procedures for manual mechanisms to respond to, mitigate, and recover from the failure.
Elasticity Benefits
Acquire resources as you need them and release resources when you no longer need them
Agility Benefits
Reduce the time to make resources available to your developers from weeks to just minutes
The cost and time it takes to experiment and develop is significantly lower
Pay-as-you-go Pricing Benefits
Easily adapt to changing business needs without overcommitting budgets
Improve your responsiveness to changes
Adapt your business depending on need and not on forecasts
Reduce the risk of overprovisioning or missing capacity
Scalability Benefits
A system that is scalable can adapt to meet an increase in demand
Global Reach Benefits
Security
Availability
Performance
Scalability
Flexibility
Global Footprint
Economy of Scale
Lower variable cost
Lower pay-as-you-go prices
How does AWS Cloud allow users to focus on business value?
Shifting technical resources to revenue-generating activities as opposed to managing
infrastructure
Operational Expenses
Operating costs
Day-to-day costs to your organizations (e.g., services and items that get used up)
Example: Purchasing printer toner
Capital Expenses
Costs associated with creating the longer-term benefits
Example: Purchasing the printer
Labor costs associated with on-premises operations
Labor costs you incur to handle on-premises operations
Example: Network operation center technicians who handle servers/infrastructure
Impact of software licensing costs when moving to the cloud
Whether licenses can be transferred to the cloud etc.
Cost benefits of right-sized infrastructure
An architecture that matches instance types and sizes to workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost
