Chapter 2: AWS - 10,000-Foot Overview Flashcards
Define Data Centre
Building that’s filled with serves
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Define an Availability Zone (AZ)
An AZ is essentially a datacenter or a cluster of closely located datacentres.
Think of an AZ as a datacentre.
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Define Region
A geographical area.
Each region consists of 2 or more AZ.
of AZ > # of Regions
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Define Edge Location
Endpoint for AWS which is used for caching content (Amazon CloudFront)
Edge location > # of Regions
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What are the 5 different services categories in AWS (that will specifically be focused on in this course)?
1) AWS Compute Services
2) AWS Storage Services
3) AWS Database Services
4) AWS Network and Content Delivery
5) AWS Security, Identity & Compliance
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What services are associated with AWS Compute Services?
Lambda & EC2
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What services are associated with AWS Storage Services?
S3 & EFS
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What services are associated with AWS Data Services?
DynamoDB & RDS
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What services are associated with AWS Network and Content Delivery?
VPC & CloudFront
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