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Cloud Concepts Flashcards

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How do I set up a budget?

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Traditional data center disadvantages

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Large up front cost, 
Forecasting demand is difficult
slow to deploy dc and servers
Maintaining is expensive
Responsibility for security compliance
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Advantages of Cloud Computing

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Trade capital expense for variable expenses (pay for what you use)
Benefits from massive economies of scale
Stop guessing capacity
Increase speed and agility
Stop spending to maintain data centers
Go global in minutes

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What is elasticity?

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Ability to acquire resources as you need them and release them when you no longer need them, automatically

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What is reliability?

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Amazon’s infrastructure is built to maximize reliability for cloud workloads

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Agility

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Lower cost of trying new ideas or processes
Reduces time to maintain infrastructure
Reduce risk around security and compliance
Provides access to emerging technology (like block chain)

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What is cloud computing?

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On demand delivery of compute power, database storage, apps, and other IT resources through cloud service platform via internet with pay as you go pricing

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Cloud Computing Models

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Iaas - Infrastructure as a service (we maintain everything, from the OS version to the ports of servers) on the cloud

Sass - Everything is maintained for us, like Teams or Gmail

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Cloud Deployment Models

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Public Cloud - Deployed onto public cloud providers like AWS
On-Premises - Cloud-like platform in a private data center (VMWare)
Hybrid - Cloud applications connected to a private data center

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AWS Global Infrastructure

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AWS Regions
Edge Locations
AWS Global Infrastructure Visualization

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AWS Regions

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Each region is in a specific geographic location
A cluster of data centers in each region
AWS 22 Launches regions

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Availability Zones

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One or more data centers
Each region has at least 2 availability zones
Redundant power, networking, and connectivity
69 availability zones launch

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Availability

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Extent which an application is fulfilling its intended business purpose

High availaibility is for single failures won’t fail

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us-east-2a

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us - AREA
east - subarea
2a - number AZ

region name us-east-2
availiability zone us-east-2a

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Edge Locations

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CDN - Global Content Delivery Network
Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 (DNS Service) use edge locations
Wide area to fetch content from

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AWS Global Infrastructure Visualization

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Feature to show all of the regions, availability zones, and edge locations

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CapEx

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Capitalized Expenditure - Building servers, building, equipment, fixed asset etc.

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OpEx

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Operating Expenditures - Operating Expenses to maintain

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Own Datacenter disadvantages

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LArge upfront capex
underused capacity or unmet demand
increating capacity takes time and more capex
monthly costs will map to predicted infrastructure needs

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Cloud infrastructure

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No up-front investment
pay as you go, OpEx
Scale immediately
monthly costs maps to user demand

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AWS Cost Explorer

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Providers breakdowns by service, cost tag
Provides predictions for next three months
Recommendations for cost optimization
Accessed via API

22
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AWS Budgets

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Plan and track usage on AWS services using data from AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS TCO Calculator

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Total Cost of Ownership

  • Moving workload from data center to cloud
  • Download the report
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AWS Simple Monthly Calculator (deprecated)

AWS Pricing Calculator

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Calculate specific workload running AWS

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AWS Resource Tags

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Metadata we attatched,
includes name and optional value
include deprarment, enviorment, or project
cost report by tags

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AWS Organization

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Consolidated billing between each AWS account in the organization
Security standards and centralized logging

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AWS Cost Explorer

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Current monthly cost, the forecasted month-end cost

Group by tag, service, linked accounts, etc.

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AWS Support Tools

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AWS Support
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Support

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Support from AWS resources

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AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Enables to check AWS usage against best practices
AWS Console accessed from
All get access to 7 checks

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Trusted Advisor Checks 7

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Cost Optimization
Performance
Security
Fault Tolerance
Service Limits
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Support Plan Tiers

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AWS Basic Support

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Support Plan Categories

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Communication method
Response time
Cost
Type of Guidance offered

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AWS Basic Support

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All AWS customers
trusted advisor (7 core checks)
24x7 customer service, documentation, forms, and whitepapers
personal health dashboard
no monthly cost
36
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AWS Developer Support

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Include basic support
Business hours email access to support engineers
limited to 1 contact
29$ a month

37
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AWS Business Support

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Includes developer support
Full set of trusted advisor checks
24x7 phone, email, chat, to engineers
unlimited contacts 
provides third-party support
100 per month (tied to AWS usage)
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AWS Enterprise Support

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Includes business support
designated technical account manager
concierge support team
15,000 month (tied to AWS)

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Support Response Time

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40
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Assistance for Cloud Workloads

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AWS Quickstarts
AWS Partner Network Consultant
AWS Professional Services Team

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