Cloud Containers

Question 1

What is a task definition for ECS?

Answer 1

It is a text file that defines one or more containers that form your application

Question 2

What is the difference between a service and a task?

Answer 2

A task launches containers until they are stopped or exited. A services manages a number of tasks together

Question 3

Where is the CPU and Memory defined in creating ECS clusters?

Answer 3

At the task definition level

Question 4

ECS Service Auto Scaling will scale up your EC2 instances when needed

Answer 4

False. Service Auto Scaling scales tasks, not instances

Question 5

We want to scale our underlying instances housing our ECS tasks, what can we use?

Answer 5

ECS Cluster Capacity Provider. Pair it with an Auto Scaling Group

Question 6

What is AWS App Runner?

Answer 6

Allows us to deploy web applications and APIs at scale with containers

Question 7

You have multiple Docker-based applications hosted on-premises that you want to migrate to AWS. You don’t want to provision or manage any infrastructure; you just want to run your containers on AWS. Which AWS service should you choose?

Answer 7

AWS Fargate on ECS

Question 8

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) has two Launch Types, what are they?

Answer 8

EC2 and Fargate