Cloud Concepts

Question 1

Six Advantages of Cloud Computing

Answer 1

1. Trade fixed expense for variable expense (pay as you go)
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility - resource available in few button clicks on short span of time
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes

Question 2

service models

Answer 2

1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
2. Platform as a Service (PaaS)
3. Software as a Service (SaaS)

Question 3

Global Infrastructure

Answer 3

Region
Availability Zone - one or more discrete data centers
Edge locations

Question 4

Developer tools (How to interact with AWS)

Answer 4

The AWS Management Console
The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
IDE and IDE toolkits
AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Question 5

Infrastructure as Code

Answer 5

1. AWS CDK - The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation.
2. AWS CloudFormation

Question 6

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Answer 6

AWS Well-Architected helps cloud architects and developers build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads. Built around six pillars—

1. operational excellence
2. security
3. reliability
4. performance efficiency
5. cost optimization
   6 sustainability

Question 7

AWS Pricing Calculator

Answer 7

AWS Pricing Calculator is a web based service that you can use to create cost estimates to suit your AWS use cases. AWS Pricing Calculator is useful both for people who have never used AWS and for those who want to reorganize or expand their usage.

Question 8

Migration Evaluator

Answer 8

Migration Evaluator (Formerly TSO Logic) is a complimentary service to create data-driven business cases for AWS Cloud planning and migration.

Question 9

AWS Cost Explorer

Answer 9

AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that enables you to view and analyze your costs and usage. You can explore your usage and costs using the main graph, the Cost Explorer cost and usage reports, or the Cost Explorer RI reports

The rightsizing recommendations feature in Cost Explorer helps you identify cost-saving opportunities by downsizing or terminating instances in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). R