Cloud Computing

Question 1

Why go cloud?

Answer 1

Solves a company pain (hardware concerns) and brings value, can be achieved usually in less than a year, costs are economically related to gains (elasticity), unlimited scalability, great fault tolerance and arguably security…worldwide deployment, built in software services with certain platforms

Question 2

Cloud computing short definition

Answer 2

Outsourcing hardware and software architecture

Question 3

Cloud computing NIST definition

Answer 3

Ubiquitous, on-demand, convenient network access to a shared pool of configurable resources

Question 4

Types of cloud (3)

Answer 4

Public (AWS, Google, Azure)
Private (within an institution)
Hybrid

Question 5

Cloud services are hosted in separate geographic areas called

Answer 5

Availability Zones (US-East-1)

Question 6

According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant, a good cloud infrastructure/platform service

Answer 6

1. Leaders, execute well and are positioned for tomorrow

Question 7

2 types of deployment models in cloud computing

Answer 7

1. Serverless (no visibility to machines, pay per application use)
2. Fully Managed (Choose number of machines, AWS EC2, pay for machine runtime)

Question 8

IaaS

Answer 8

Computing infrastructure provisioned and managed over the internet (AWS EC2)

Question 9

PaaS

Answer 9

Development/Deployment environment in the cloud (AWS Elastic Beanstalk)

-avoid managing software licenses

Question 10

Virtual Machines

Answer 10

Emulate hardware/software system, sit on top of a hypervisor right about infrastructure

Question 11

Containers

Answer 11

Lighter than VM, sits on top of operating system that isolates applications in their own environments (good for dependencies)

Question 12

FaaS

Answer 12

Function as a service, simply a coding environment on the cloud for running some code (AWS Lambda)

Question 13

SaaS

Answer 13

An application environment/cloud-based app (office 365)