Compute Services Flashcards
How does ECS function as a container management service
ECS - Manages Docker container services
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster. This is not a fully managed service and you can manage the underlying servers yourself.
What are the benefits of the cloud that agility provides
Agility refers to the ability of the cloud to give you easy access to a broad range of technologies so that you can innovate faster and build nearly anything that you can imagine. You can quickly spin up resources as you need them – from infrastructure services, such as compute, storage, and databases, to Internet of Things, machine learning, data lakes and analytics, and much more.
What does Elasticity mean when it comes to using aws cloud services
Elasticity - you provision the number of resources that you actually need. You can scale these resources up or down instantly to grow and shrink capacity as needed.
With cloud computing elasticity, you don’t have to over-provision resources upfront to handle peak levels of business activity in the future. Instead, you provision the number of resources that you actually need. You can scale these resources up or down instantly to grow and shrink capacity as your business needs change.
What are the advantages of using EC2 Spot instances
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. best use case for instances that can be interrupted
What are memory optimized instance types used for
Memory optimized instances are designed to deliver fast performance
for workloads that process large data sets in memory.
What are compute optimized instance types
Compute Optimized instances are designed for applications that benefit from high compute power.
These applications include compute-intensive applications like high-performance web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and machine learning inference.
What use case would storage optimized instance types be good for
Summary answer - Used for workloads that require high read and write access to large data sets
Storage Optimized instance types - Dense-storage instances are designed for workloads that require high sequential read and write access to very large data sets,
What are Accelerated Computing instance
Accelerated Computing instance family is a family of instances that use hardware accelerators, or co-processors, to perform some functions, such as floating-point number calculation and graphics processing, more efficiently than is possible in software running on CPUs.
What does AWS Compute optimizer provide
AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics
What type of service is Aws Step functions
Summary Answer - visual workflow service used to automate business process and and build severless applications
AWS Step Functions is a low-code visual workflow service used to orchestrate AWS services, automate business processes, and build serverless applications
What is Aws Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you.
What is Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
