Cloud Foundation Concepts Flashcards

Learn about cloud foundation concepts

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What are the characteristics of Availability Zones?

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  1. Physically separted
  2. Connected through a low-latency links
  3. Fault tolerant
  4. Allows for high availability
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What is an AWS Region?

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  • It’s a physical location where AWS has data centres.
  • A region contains multi Availibility Zones
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What are the AWS Region Characteristics?

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  1. Fully independent and Isolated (from other regions)
  2. Resource and Service Specific
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What are AWS Availability zones?

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Availability zones consists of one or more separated data centres, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.

e.g. Region: N.Virginia

Availability Zones:

  1. US-EAST-1A
  2. US-EAST-1B
  3. US-EAST-1C
  4. US-EAST-1D
  5. US-EAST-1E
  6. US-EAST-1F
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What are Edge Locations?

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Edge locations cache content to fast delivery to your users. It’s made possible through AWS CloudFront. It’s recudes latency (Low Latency is good).

NB: Latency: Is the time that passes between a user request and resulting response.

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What is AWS Management Console?

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AWS Management console allows users to access AWS account and manage applications running in the account from a web broswer.

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What is AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)?

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The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) allows you to access AWS Account through a terminal or command window.

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List 7 server categories of AWS Cloud computing?

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  • Compute - e.g EC2, Lambda
  • Networking - e.g. VPC, AWS Direct Connect
  • Storage - e.g. S3 (Simple Storage Service),EBS(Elastic Block Service)
  • Analytics - e.g Athen, Redshift
  • Development - e.g Cloud 9 , Code Commit
  • Security - e.g. IAM , Amazon Macie
  • Database - e.g RDS, DynamoDB
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What are the 4 Benefits of Cloud computing?

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  1. High Availability - Low failure rate
  2. Elasticity - Scale environment easily (Shrink and Grow) as when required
  3. Agility - Innovate faster through leveraging existing services
  4. Durability - Long-term data storage protection.
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Define 3 Cloud deployment models?

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  1. Private cloud (on premises datacenter)
  2. Public Cloud (AWS, AZURE - benefit from Economics of Scale)
  3. Hybrid Cloud (Combination of Public and Private) e.g. Through the use of AWS Direct Connect
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Name 6 advantages of Cloud computing?

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  1. Increase speed and agility
  2. Trading capital expense for operational expense
  3. Stop guessing capacity
  4. Benefit from massive economies of scales
  5. Focus on your developing your applications vs managing hardware
  6. Scale easily
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What is a AWS Root User?

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Root User is automatically created when you create an AWS account.

NB: Root User should be protected with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

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Define 3 Cloud Computing Models?

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  1. Infrastructure as service (Iaas) e.g. EC2
  2. Software as a Service (SaaS) e.g. Sagemaker, Gmail
  3. Platform as a service (PaaS) e.g. AWS Cloud 9, Hiroki platform
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What is an AWS Local Zone?

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  1. AWS deployed and operated infrastructure in large metro centres
  2. Elastic, on-demand resources, with pay-as-you-go pricing
  3. Same AWS core services and developer experience
  4. Integrated with Region services through the AWS backbone
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