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Compute In The Cloud Flashcards

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What does an EC2 run on top of?

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Physical host machines managed by AWS using virtualization technology.

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What is multitenancy?

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The idea of sharing underlying hardware on a server.

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What 2 operating systems can you create EC2 instances of?

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-Windows
-Linux

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What are 5 different instance families in EC2?

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-general purpose
-compute optimized
-memory optimized
-accelerated computing
-storage optimized

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What are Compute Optimized Instances ideal for?

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compute-intensive tasks like gaming servers, high performance computing or HPC, and even scientific modeling.

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What are General Purpose Instances ideal for?

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provide a good balance of compute, memory, and networking resources, and can be used for a variety of diverse workloads like web service or code repositories.

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What are Memory Optimized Instances ideal for?

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good for memory-intensive tasks.

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What are Accelerated Computing Instances ideal for?

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good for floating point number calculations, graphics processing, or data pattern matching, as they use hardware accelerators.

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What are Storage Optimized Instances ideal for?

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Workloads that require high performance for locally stored data.

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type is suitable for data warehousing applications?

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Storage Optimized

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type balances compute, memory, and networking resources?

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General Purpose

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type is ideal for high-performance databases?

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Memory Optimized

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Which Amazon EC2 instance type offers high-performance processors?

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Compute Optimized

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What are the 5 Amazon EC2 pricing options?

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-On Demand
-Reserved Instances
-EC2 Instance Savings Plan
-Spot Instances
-Dedicated Hosts

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What are On Demand Instances Ideal for?

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short-term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted
**not recommended for workloads that last a year or longer.

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What are Standard Reserve Instances Ideal for?

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you know the EC2 instance type and size you need for your steady-state applications and in which AWS Region you plan to run them.

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What are EC2 Instance Savings Plans Ideal for?

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you need flexibility in your Amazon EC2 usage over the duration of the commitment term

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What are Spot Instances Ideal for?

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workloads with flexible start and end times, or that can withstand interruptions.

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What are Convertible Reserved Instances Ideal for?

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you need to run your EC2 instances in different Availability Zones or different instance types

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What are Reserved Instances?

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a billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account

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What are the 2 available types of Reserved Instances?

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-Standard Reserved Instances
-Convertible Reserved Instances

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What terms can you purchase Standard Reserved and Convertible Reserved Instances for?

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1-year or 3-year term

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Reserved Instances require you to state what 3 qualifications?

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-Instance type and size: For example, m5.xlarge
-Platform description (operating system): For example, Microsoft Windows Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
-Tenancy: Default tenancy or dedicated tenancy

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You have the option to specify WHAT for your EC2 Reserved Instances?

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Availability Zone

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At the end of a Reserved Instance term, you can continue using the Amazon EC2 instance without interruption. However, you are charged On-Demand rates until you do one of the following:

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-Terminate the instance.
-Purchase a new Reserved Instance that matches the instance attributes (instance family and size, Region, platform, and tenancy).

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What are EC2 Instance Savings Plans?

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reduce your EC2 instance costs when you make an hourly spend commitment to an instance family and Region for a 1-year or 3-year term

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What do you not need to specify with the EC2 Instance Savings Plans?

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-specify what EC2 instance type and size
-commit to a certain number of EC2 instances over a 1-year or 3-year term
**EC2 Instance Savings Plans don’t include an EC2 capacity reservation option.

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What are Dedicated Hosts?

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physical servers with Amazon EC2 instance capacity that is fully dedicated to your use.

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What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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A service that automatically adds or removes Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application demand.

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Within Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, you can use what 2 approaches

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-Dynamic scaling responds to changing demand.
-Predictive scaling automatically schedules the right number of Amazon EC2 instances based on predicted demand

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an Auto Scaling group sets what?

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set the minimum number of Amazon EC2 instances.

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What is Minimum Capacity?

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the number of Amazon EC2 instances that launch immediately after you have created the Auto Scaling group

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What is Desired Capacity?

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The overall capacity needed

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What occurs if you do not specify the desired number of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group?

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The desired capacity defaults to your minimum capacity.

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What is the Maximum Capacity?

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The maximum number of Amazon EC2 instances

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What is Elastic Load Balancing?

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AWS service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources

37
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What is Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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a publish/subscribe service. Using Amazon SNS topics, a publisher publishes messages to subscribers.

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What is Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

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a message queuing service.

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What does the term “Serverless” mean?

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your code runs on servers, but you do not need to provision or manage these servers

40
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What is AWS Lambda

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a service that lets you run code without needing to provision or manage servers.

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What are Containers?

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a standard way to package your application’s code and dependencies into a single object. You can also use containers for processes and workflows in which there are essential requirements for security, reliability, and scalability.

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What is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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a highly scalable, high-performance container management system that enables you to run and scale containerized applications on AWS.

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What is Docker?

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a software platform that enables you to build, test, and deploy applications quickly.

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What is Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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a fully managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS.

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What is Kubernetes

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open-source software that enables you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale.

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What is AWS Fargate

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a serverless compute engine for containers.
**It works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

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