Cloud Concepts

Question 1

Well-Architected Framework

Answer 1

1. Operation Excellence
2. Security
3. Reliability
4. Performance Efficiency
5. Cost Optimization

Question 2

AWS Batch

Answer 2

AWS Batch is a regional service that simplifies running batch jobs across multiple Availability Zones within a region. You can create AWS Batch compute environments within a new or existing VPC. After a compute environment is up and associated with a job queue, you can define job definitions that specify which Docker container images to run your jobs

Question 3

Amazon EFS

Answer 3

Amazon EFS is a regional service storing data within and across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability and durability. Amazon EC2 instances can access your file system across AZs, regions, and VPCs, while on-premises servers can access using AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN.

Question 4

Placement group.

Answer 4

A placement group is just a logical grouping of instances within a single Availability Zone that benefit from low network latency, high network throughput

Question 5

Design for failure

Answer 5

Encourages you to be a pessimist when designing architectures in the cloud; assume things will fail. In other words, you should always design, implement and deploy for automated recovery from failure

Question 6

Think Parallel

Answer 6

Think Parallel best practice accentuates the use of parallelization when designing architectures in the AWS cloud. It is advisable to not only implement parallelization wherever possible but also automate it because the cloud allows you to create a repeatable process very easily.

Question 7

Amazon Inspector

Answer 7

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. These findings can be reviewed directly or as part of detailed assessment reports which are available via the Amazon Inspector console or API.

Question 8

SOA (Service Oriented Architechture)

Answer 8

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principle that the more loosely coupled the components of the system, the bigger and better it scales.

Question 9

Device Farm

Answer 9

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that lets you improve the quality of your web and mobile apps by testing them across an extensive range of desktop browsers and real mobile devices; without having to provision and manage any testing infrastructure.

Question 10

Mobile Hub

Answer 10

AWS Mobile Hub is a service that enables even a novice to easily deploy and configure mobile app backend features using a range of powerful AWS services

Question 11

Ground Station

Answer 11

AWS Ground Station is for controlling satellite communications and processing data using satellites

Question 12

Lumberyard

Answer 12

Amazon Lumberyard is is a game engine service for creating games.

Question 13

Considerations for an AWS Region

Answer 13

1. Compliance with data governance
2. Latency
3. Proximity to customers
4. Pricing