CF - Module 1 Flashcards
What is Cloud Computing?
It is on-demand delivery of services, such as power, database, apps, and other IT resources via internet with pay-as-you-go pricing
What does cloud computing run on?
They run on servers that are located in large data centers around the world.
What is a traditional computing model?
Infrastructure is thought of as hardware to solve a problem.
What does a traditional computing model require?
They require space, staff, physical security, planning, and capital expenditure
What is cloud computing model?
Infrastructure is thought of as software to solve a problem
What are the 3 cloud service models?
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS)
What’s the main difference between the 3 Cloud service models? (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
IaaS allows the user to have more control over IT resources,
With PaaS having lesser control, to SaaS having the least control
What does the Cloud service model, (IaaS) mean?
It includes essential cloud services that offer networking, computing, and data storage, giving you the most flexibility and control over it resources
What does the cloud compute model, (PaaS), mean?
It provides a service that takes care of underlying infrastructure, like hardware or operating system. It allows you to focus on deploying and managing apps without worrying about the technicalities.
What does the cloud computer model, SaaS, mean?
Services in this category offer complete products focused on end-user apps, without having to worry about maintenance and infrastructure but only how to use it.
What are the 3 cloud computing DEPLOYMENT models?
Cloud, Hybrid, On-premises
What are all the advantages of cloud computing?
- Trade capital expense for variable expense
- Massive economies of scale
- Stop guessing capacity
- Increase speed and agility
- Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers
- Go global in minutes
What is a web service?
It’s a piece of software that makes itself available over the internet and uses a standardized format - such as XML or JSON for request and response of an API
What does VPC stand for?
Virtual Private Cloud
What does EC2 stand for?
Elastic Compute Cloud
What does S3 stand for?
Simple storage service
What are the 3 ways to interact with AWS?
- AWS Management console
- Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
- Software development kit (SDK)
What is AWS?
AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-based products called services to work together.
What is the AWS CAF?
(AWS Cloud Adoption Framework)
It provides guidance and best practices to help organizations build a comprehensive approach to cloud computing across the org. and throughout the lifecycle to accelerate successful cloud adoption
What are the 6 perspectives of the AWS CAF?
- business
- People
- Governance
- Platform
- Security
- Operations
In the AWS CAF perspectives, how are they categorized?
They are cagetorized into business capabilities and technical capabilities.
[Business]
- Business
- People
- Governance
[Technical]
- Platform
- Security
- Operations
